The Snuff Tobacco Reference

Tobacco Baling

Baling is a tobacco bundling method whereby loose leaf tobacco is made into a bale as to facilitate storage, handling, and transportation operations. Baling is performed with the aid of a baling press, and bales are kept with cordage and are enveloped in burlap, canvas, or paper for protection and retention. Baling has advantages over certain alternative bundling methods such as sheeting in that bales have a smaller footprint and stack more efficiently, and baling as compared with hand tying is a quicker process that requires lesser skilled labor and as such is cheaper, but conversely baling has disadvantages including the increased difficulty of accurately grading bales and the potential for increased processing costs for receiving facilities that are not optimised for handling bales.

References

  1. Farmline. United States Department of Agriculture. Burley Tobacco: Is Baling A Better Way? Bill Gordon. Volume 2; Number 9; Issue 1981-10; Pages 4–6. Digitised version
  2. The Agricultural Journal. South Africa Department of Agriculture. Volume 6; Issue 1913-07–12; Pages 57, 633–634, 926. 1914.
  3. Cultivation of Tobacco in Sumatra. United States Deparment of Agriculture. Pages 34–35. 1898. Digitised version
  4. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Tobacco of the Committee on Agriculture. United States House of Representatives. Letter from Kelly Haley to Larry Hopkins dated 1980-02-16. Page 59. 1980.