That barn isn’t on fire; It’s tobacco curing season by: Sarah Denson. Posted: Aug 24, 2017 / 01:37 AM CDT. ... Tobacco barns across the country will be smoking for the next couple of months.

As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of the top of barns. "Tobacco curing, it's an art really," Tanner Pritchett said.

Like many old rural buildings, tobacco curing barns often are left to collapse from old age. But unlike other old barns, tobacco barns also represent a business and a way of life that shaped ...

The barn is not on fire. The smoke you see is a byproduct of the tobacco curing process. For over a century, tobacco farmers in our area have been growing, harvesting and curing tobacco.

It is places like curing barns – hot, sweaty, enclosed, and surrounded by tobacco – where people get really sick. His 17-year-old son, he added, has also vomited while working with tobacco.

The distinct smell of a curing tobacco barn has become a beloved tradition in the area. Curing tobacco is a delicate art. Eighth-generation tobacco farmer, Timothy Head, showed me how it works ...

WINDSOR LOCKS -- More than 100 firefighters battled a blaze that has destroyed several tobacco curing sheds in Windsor Locks on Monday. The fire broke out at one of the hulking barns on Rainbow ...

Kutsaga Research has highlighted that tobacco curing, conducted in specific barns, is a controlled process that creates ideal conditions for the leaves to physiologically ripen.

Tobacco company JTI and Preservation Virginia have formed a partnership to preserve historic tobacco curing barns in Virginia and North Carolina. JTI will provide $100,000 in grants to help owners ...

At its meeting on March 6, the Windsor Town Council approved the leasing of tobacco barns at Northwest Park to the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Historical Society.