A friend of mine his family had a tobacco farm outside of New Bern. I helped him for a week cropping. There is not anything more miserable. LOL!
“ There is not anything more miserable.”
Cantaloupes may be worse. Done both. Depends on the heat. Dunno. It’s close.
Starching barbed wire in back pastures and digging post holes has both beat, mainly because you inevitably disturb a nest of rattlesnakes