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COULD YOU MAKE MONEY GROWING ENERGY TOBACCO?
Densely planted, no sucker control, then cut like silage: Energy tobacco will cost much less to produce than conventional. (Photo provided by Tyton)A company in Virginia will soon begin signing...
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THE PROSPECTS FOR THIS CROP KEEP FALLING
Workers load curing barns with flue-cured leaf on a farm in Johnston County, N.C.The September projection for tobacco production from USDA (released this past weekend) puts flue-cured volume at 467...
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MARKETING PACE ACCELERATES AS HARVEST MOVES UP STALK
Workers harvest flue-cured leaf near Yadkinville in the Piedmont of North Carolina (file photo).Slow development of bottom crop: Flue-cured deliveries in August and early September were very light,...
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LATE NEWS from South Carolina, October 6, 2015: The small amount of tobacco (all flue-cured) that remained in the field when the floods began October 1 is now probably a complete loss, says Tré...
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A TORRENTIAL END TO A TOUGH GROWING SEASON
After the deluge: This flue-cured grower in the N.C. Piedmont near Winston-Salem had trouble completing combining after late-season rains. "All crops that were either ready for harvest or being...
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FROSTS FINISH OFF MOST REMAINING FLUE-CURED
Really ripe: Flue-cured leaf grown at the Oxford, N.C., tobacco research station cures in a traditional furnace-and-flue barn on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair. The leaf was grown to...
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WILL THE QUALITY OF THIS BURLEY CROP BE BETTER THAN EXPECTED?
Beginning to look up: a A ground level shot looking up at burley curing in a barn near Wilson, N.C. The yield of this year's crop is down, but the quality looks good.The last of Kentucky's burley has...
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COULD BRAZIL'S BAD WEATHER BRING SUPPLY BACK IN LINE WITH DEMAND?
Boxes of burley await shipment from storage at the Burley Stabilization Corporation headquarters in Springfield, Tn. A leaf executive suggested earlier this month that the supply situation for both...
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A SEASON TO FORGET
Seeking a higher price: Staff members at Old Belt Tobacco auction house in Rural Hall, N.C., cajole the buyers in hopes of getting a higher price for a bale of flue-cured. Warehouse owner Dennis White...
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CARRYOVER DEPRESSES PRICE AT SOME AUCTION MARKETS
Workers process flue-cured bales at the Big M Warehouse auction in Wilson, N.C.About 300,000 pounds of burley from North Carolina plus a little from Tennessee were sold at auction on December 14 at...
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HOW TO CONTROL BLACK SHANK IN 2016
Black shank on flue-cured plants in a research plot at the Upper Coastal Plain Research Station near Rocky Mount, N.C.The arsenal for battling black shank has gotten larger since 2014. J. Michael...
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A COMMITMENT TO QUALITY IS THE KEY FOR 2016
Plant production season coming up: A newly seeded greenhouse from a past season.Three or four is better than one or two when it comes to harvesting. Some N.C. flue-cured growers were forced to cut...
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IT'S SHOW TIME IN RALEIGH!
A new float tray sanitation system from Long Tobacco Barns of Tarboro, N.C., will be on display at the Southern Farm Show. The "Steaming Eagle" has the capacity to sanitize 1,029 two-inch high trays or...
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Showing at the Show: Alessio Scarscelli (knit cap) of DeCloet explains to Robert Templeton of Harmony, N.C., and David Majors of Cleveland, N.C., how you can spray with precision with the two sprayers...
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INCREASING QUALITY ANY WAY YOU CAN
A quality strategy: Flue-cured grower Richard Todd of Wendell, N.C., wants to maximize his leaf quality in 2016.Quality will definitely determine who gets contracts in the future and who doesn't, says...
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PLANT PRODUCTION WELL UNDER WAY
Young seedlings were growing well at the end of February on this farm near Raleigh, N.C.Seeding wrapped up on March 2 on Tyson Family Farms in Nashville in the Eastern Belt of North Carolina. "In the...
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IN THE DEEP SOUTH, TOBACCO PLANTING BEGINS
A farmer beds his tobacco land before transplanting near Cobbtown, Ga., on March 18. The season's first plantings reportedly took place four days earlier in Florida (Photo courtesy of J.Michael...
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TRANSPLANTS ARE PLENTIFUL
A worker adjusts a mower before clipping plants on a flue-cured farm in eastern N.C. [File photo]An ample supply of transplants appears on the way in North Carolina. Substantially all the flue-cured...
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The first crop projection of the season is in
A flue-cured greenhouse with plants nearly ready for setting, near Snow Hill, N.C.USDA'S INITIAL ESTIMATE HOW MUCH TOBACCO WILL WE GROW?In a bit of a surprise, USDA said in its Prospective Plantings...
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A PROGRESS REPORT ON THE 2016 TOBACCO CROP
Flue-cured growing in south Georgia on May 4. It was set on March 24.Georgia and Florida--Planting is complete, says Extension tobacco specialist J. Michael Moore. "Some growers are making fertilizer...
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