Abstract: An apparatus and a method for harvesting tobacco are disclosed. Tobacco stalks are cut on the afternoon of one day and are left to lie transversely of the tobacco field. The next day, a harvesting apparatus is moved through the field and includes an elevating conveyor on which the felled tobacco plants are loaded as by a person sitting in a low seat immediately forwardly of the conveyor. The conveyor and the seat comprise a part of a trailer pulled behind the tractor, and the trailer further includes behind the conveyor a platform on which workers may stand to remove tobacco plants from the conveyor and to impale them on conventional tobacco sticks. The tobacco plants, having been lying overnight in the field, are well wilted and of much reduced weight. A wagon is towed by the trailer in close proximity thereto, and when the sticks are loaded with tobacco they are tipped toward the wagon to a position where they may be picked up by a work person on the wagon for stacking of the sticks of tobacco on the wagon.