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Abstract
With the several options now available for housing and curing burley (conventional tobacco barn types, cable-hoist system and field curing structures), producers often ask and need to know comparative costs of the various options. Barns have a higher initial cost, long life and assessable value to the farm. The one-tier field structures initially cost about one-third that of a barn per acre of capacity and have labor savings and periodic plastic replacement cost. Low-cost cantilever type field curing structures and frames are even lower in cost and reduce labor but have annual plastic replacement costs and some higher weather risks. The cable-hoist method reduces labor by about half but has relatively high initial equipment and barn construction or conversion costs.
Publication Date
1998
Publication Number
AEU-83
Repository Citation
College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, "Cost Comparisons for Burley Tobacco Housing and Curing Facilities and Methods" (1998). Agricultural Engineering Extension Updates. 3.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/aeu_reports/3
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