TOBACCO FARMER NEWSLETTER
July I 2017 |
Welcome to the July II issue of Tobacco Farmer Newsletter. If you haven't signed on to receive the newsletter regularly or need to change an address, please click on "Join our mailing list" and follow the prompts. For more information, you can call me at 919-789-4631 or email me at chrisbickers@gmail.com.--Chris Bickers |
The dark types,like this Virginia dark fire-cured tobacco growing at the Blackstone, Va., research station, a year ago, are all enjoying a resurgence in production. According to USDA, dark plantings in all three states are up this summer, with the tiny Virginia crop leading in relative increase at plus 35 percent. You can see dark and flue-cured research at the Blackstone station field day on July 27.
USDA's first survey of this year's crop showed a small decrease in flue-cured plantings, a small increase in burley plantings and a substantial increase in dark plantings, no doubt to the weather-damaged 2016 production. Following are USDA's ![]() projections for the major types broken out by state, with percentage change at the end of each line. FLUE-CURED: BURLEY: - Kentucky, 60,000 ac-res, down one percent.
- Tennessee, 14,000 acres, up 16 percent.
- Pennsylvania, 4,500 acres, down six percent.
- Virginia, 1,100 acres, down eight percent.
- North Carolina, 900 acres, down 10 percent.
- All states, 80,500 acres, up one percent.
FIRE-CURED: DARK AIR-CURED: - Kentucky, 5,800 acres, up four percent.
- Tennessee, 1,300 acres, up eight percent.
- All states--6,300 acres, up six percent.
PENNSYLVANIA SEEDLEAF: - Pennsylvania, 1,600 acres, no change.
SOUTHERN MARYLAND: - Pennsylvania, 1,800 acres, no change.
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DATES TO REMEMBER
- July 24-26. N.C. Tobacco Tour.--Monday, 3:30 p.m.: Triple B Farms, Bentonville. 5:30 p.m.: Welcome reception (5:30 p.m.) and dinner (6 p.m.) at Lane's Sea-foods,
![]() McGee's Crossroads.--Tuesday, July 25: Oxford Tobacco Research Station, 7:45 am, Breakfast and Field Tour.--11 a.m. Lunch, then to Upper Coastal Plain Research Station, Rocky Mount.--Wednesday, July 26: Lower Coastal Plain Research Station. 7:45 a.m. Breakfast and Field Tour. 11 a.m. Lunch and Tour Conclusion. Contact and to register: Tobacco.ces.ncsu.edu.
- July 27. VA Annual Tobacco Research Field Day, Southern Piedmont Center, Blackstone. Registration begins at 5 p.m., dinner at 5:30 p.m., and the Field tour at 6 p.m. Contact Margaret Kenny at makenny @vt .edu or 434-292-5331.
- August 9, 1 p.m. Kentucky Burley Tobacco Industry Tour, UK Spindletop Farm, 3250 Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Ky. To conclude around midday on August 10.
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projections for the major types broken out by state, with percentage change at the end of each line.
McGee's Crossroads.--Tuesday, July 25: Oxford Tobacco Research Station, 7:45 am, Breakfast and Field Tour.--11 a.m. Lunch, then to Upper Coastal Plain Research Station, Rocky Mount.--Wednesday, July 26: Lower Coastal Plain Research Station. 7:45 a.m. Breakfast and Field Tour. 11 a.m. Lunch and Tour Conclusion. Contact and to register: Tobacco.ces.ncsu.edu.
