Controlled choas is the order of the moment while, from left, Jody Wilson from Warren county, with migrant workers Genaro Sierra, Miguel Anguel Rodriguez and Jose Leos and his son Erick Wilson drop off roughly $36,000 worth of burley from Jody's harvest. The tobacco is stored at Bale Marketing's Burley Farmer's Warehouse No. 1 until it is sold in November. Having the bales kept at the warehouses gives the farmers the space needed to bale more burley while also coving the crop for insurance purposes.

Clerk Rita Burgin of Cave City sorts through racks of cigarettes between customers while working at Smokin' Joe's Tobacco Outlet in Horse Cave. Burgin keeps the shelves stocked and keeps track of the stores inventory.

The process of stripping the flyings, Lugs, Cutters, leafs and tips from the stalk of the tobacco plants are even older than 83-year-old William Staples who has been working tobacco since his daddy intoduced him.

Nearly five months after Tommy Staples's, right, burley plants were transplanted from his greenhouse on Tick Ridge Road he, his brother Kenneth and a crew of five, including migrant workers Roberto Munoz and Jose Perez from Mexico empty a barn owned by Doug Landers to prepare for the next step of stripping the tobacco plants.

'Whew, that tobacco burnin' my eyes,' Christina Childress exclaimed while stripping burley for Tommy and Kenneth Staples at Harry Landers' farm off Coral Hill Road. The burning sensation comes from the green tobbacco plants that are hung in the barn to be cured.

Alice Maulden of Horse Cave puts down a $20 bill while buying a pac of U.S.A Gold full flavor cigarettes at Smokin' Joe's Tobacco Outlet in Horse Cave.

Having smoked for nearly 30 years, Chester Martin,72, works on a While Owl cigar while mowing outfront of Smokin' Joe's Tobacco Outlet in Cave City. Martin who mowes lawns for over 25 places around Cave City, sold his farm 'back in 99' were he raised burley for 13 years.

On their way to ensure their rent payment is on time, Roshawn Brooks, 3, is escourted through the drizzle down Broadway Street in Glasgow by her grandmother Florine Brooks, right, and mother Lakisha Brooks as they head to the Housing Authority of Glasgow. 'If we ain't got it payed by the 5th they charge us $5,' Florine said after walking over a mile one way to make the payment.