What Crop Is This?

This crop used to be plentiful decades ago.  Now, one hardly sees any. (click to enlarge)

How about this picture below?  You can see the leaves a bit better.

(click to enlarge)

Last clue.  A close-up of the leaves.

This crop was grown by the indigenous inhabitants of this area long before the English arrived
in 1607.  The English traded for tobacco and sent it back to England.  (click to enlarge)

Did you guess tobacco?  

Its been more than a decade that I've seen tobacco growing in southern Virginia.  I suspect there is still a healthy market for it, but the number of fields and 'tobacco barns' that one sees when traveling through southern Virginia and into North Carolina is minute compared to when I first arrived in this area over 50 years ago.  Fields of tobacco were everywhere.  In fact, my wife's uncle's grew tobacco their entire lives in eastern North Carolina.  Made a good living, too.

These fields were just west of Emporia, Virginia along U.S. Route 58.

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Dennis A. Mook

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