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WILL FARMERS RETREAT FROM FULL HARVEST MECHANIZATION?
Another machine you would have seen at the Southern Farm Show--if it hadn't been cancelled: Hand primers for flue-cured [Photo courtesy of Granville Equipment].There's a trend back to hand harvest of...
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BURLEY EXPECTATIONS CONTINUE TO DROP
There's not much U.S. burley to put in storage, as shown here in a file photo of one of Burley Stabilization's Warehouses in Springfield, Tn.No additional supplies of burley are likely to show up...
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LEAF MECHANIZATION IN 2021
The DeCloet Canada exhibit at the 2018 Southern Farm Show. Photo taken by Chris Bickers.I would normally be analyzing here what I saw at the Southern Farm Show, but that’s not going to work since the...
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GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START IN THE GREENHOUSE
Plants up and growing in the Deep South! The last greenhouse in Georgia was seeded around the February 12 at about the same time that the first clipping of a greenhouse in the state (above) took...
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February II 2021A greenhouse in Kentucky from a past season. File photo courtesy of BTGCA.HOW TO GROW THE BEST PLANTS YOU CANDon’t pre-charge your floatbeds with NPK materials, says Mat-thew Vann,...
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A FARMER WHO'S BULLISH ON BURLEY
Burley leaf gets towed away from a field in the Western North Carolina mountains last fall. But the grower isn't planning on letting his burley get towed away permanently. See story below. Photo...
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TRANSPLANTING BEGINS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
Plants began going into the ground on March 25 on the farm of Stanley Corbett and his sons near Lake Park in south Georgia. It is very close to the Georgia-Florida boundary.Transplanting began about...
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TRANSPLANTING BEGINS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
Plants began going into the ground on March 25 on the farm of Stanley Corbett and his sons near Lake Park in south Georgia. It is very close to the Georgia-Florida boundary.Transplanting began about...
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THE PROSPECTS FOR PLANTINGS IN 2021, ACCORDING TO USDA Prospective Plantings, the USDA's first survey of tobacco farmers for the year, was issued August 30. The results were a bit of a surprise since...
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Prospective Plantings, the USDA's first survey of tobacco farmers for the year, was issued August 30. The results were a bit of a surprise since modest increases had been predicted by many individuals...
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CROP REPORT 2021 -- WHO IS FARTHEST ALONG IN PLANTING?
A farm worker loads trays of plants onto a setter in this file photo showing burley transplanting. Photo by Chris Bickers.In South Carolina, a small amount of the crop—maybe 10 percent—had been set...
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Transplanting flue-cured on the farm of Daniel Johnson in Pierce County, Ga. earlier this spring.GEORGIA CROP GREAT--CAROLINA CROP VERY DRYGEORGIA-FLORIDA: The crop was beautiful till the Saturday...
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BAD NEWS FOR BRIGHT GROWERS: IT IS GETTING REALLY DRY!
Transplanting early in the season near Wilson in the Eastern Belt of North Carolina.FLUE-CUREDThe situation is dire for North Carolina flue-cured growers, and most may not realize how poor the...
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Transplanting in Kentucky was about half complete at the beginning of June, according to USDA. File photo courtesy of BTGCA.JUNE CROP REPORTTHE DROUGHT IS BROKEN--FOR NOWFLUE-CUREDNorth Carolina: It...
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LATE JUNE CROP REPORT: CROP COMES BACK STRONG
Mountainous achievement: The weather this spring was unfavorable for transplanting in much of the Tobacco Belt. Burley growers in the Appalachian mountains--like this crew near Marshall, N.C.--still...
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EARLY JULY TOBACCO HIGHLIGHTS: FIRST HARVEST, FIRST HURRICANE
Harvest has begun in Florida and Georgia, like in this south Georgia field just before Hurricane Elsa arrived. Photo by J.M. Moore.Special Report: An unexpected market for used flue-cured barns has...
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DEEP SOUTH TOBACCO GETS OFF FAIRLY EASY WHEN HURRICANE ELSA BLOWS THROUGH
How will Connecticut broadleaf fare in its first extensive year of production in the South?You can find that out at field days in North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia this month. See below for...
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HARVEST GOING ON ALMOST EVERYWHERE
Another “new” tobacco type for the Southeast: Pennsylvania 41 Seedleaf tobacco grows in a research plot on the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center in Princeton, Ky. Type 41 is a...
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HARVEST HITS STRIDE IN BURLEY COUNTRY
Burley harvest is picking up in Kentucky. Photo by Matt Barton, UK agricultural communications.After weather delays caused by too much rain, harvest is finally beginning in earnest in Kentucky. “For a...
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HARVEST UPDATE FINISHED IN FLORIDA, HALF DONE IN KENTUCKY
Auction sales for flue-cured have been strong so far, says Tommy Faulkner, auction manager at the American Tobacco Exchange in Wilson, N.C. “The trade is anticipating a short crop, so buyers are...
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