Day 8 Dail Farms Visit, Roy Thagard and Jimmy & Deborah Dail

County Extension Agent Roy Thagard introduced us to Daik Farms owners Jimmy and Deborah Dail.  Dail farms rotates tobacco and produce and also raise hogs for pork producer Murphy-Brown.  Tobacco starts out as seedlings in a hydroponic medium for 60-80 days.  One 7,500 sf shade house produces seedlings for 90 planted acres.  Roy explained that tobacco growers net approx. $2,000 per acre.

Lunch was at McCall's BBQ and Seafood and we said Aloha and Mahalo to Roy.