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WHICH WAY CONTRACTED ACRES? FLUE-CURED DOWN, BURLEY STABLE?
Presenting the tobacco picture: New N.C. Governor Roy Cooper got a painting of a tobacco scene when he spoke at the annual meeting of the Tobacco Growers Association of N.C. on February 3. Executive...
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HOW MUCH CAN YOU AFFORD TO INVEST TO GROW YOUR 2017 CROP?
How to move plant trays around easily. Craig West of Fremont, N.C., and his wife Nell stopped to look at a plant tray conveyance at the Wilson Manufacturing exhibit at the Southern Farm Show. Said G.H....
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TRANSPLANTING READY TO BEGIN
A newly seeded greenhouse near Raleigh, N.C.TRANSPLANTING READY TO BEGINThe Type 14 crop is going to the field early. There was essentially no winter in Georgia and Florida, says J. Michael Moore,...
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BLUE MOLD BREAKS OUT IN GEORGIA GREENHOUSES
FLORIDA-GEORGIA: Blue mold showed up on flue-cured plants in two south Georgia greenhouses in March. The infestations appear to be under control, and the two new fungicides Presidio and Orondis should...
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USDA PROJECTIONS: BURLEY ACRES UP 7%, FLUE -CURED DOWN 4%
Gearing up for planting in eastern North Carolina. File shot by Chris Bickers.USDA PLANTING PROJECTIONSReleased March 31, 2016HIGHLIGHTS: Flue-cured plantings are projected to be down four percent. The...
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DESPITE RAINS, PLANTING MAKES GOOD PROGRESS
A setting crew on a farm near Kenly, N.C., prepares to head to the field again with flue-cured transplants (file photo by Chris Bickers).Torrential rains on the night of April 24 and the following...
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BURLEY MAKES ITS WAY TO THE FIELD
Burley transplanting in a conservation tillage field in Kentucky (file photo by Bob Pearce)..In Kentucky, transplanting is just getting started, with perhaps one percent of the acreage planted, says...
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REPORTS FROM THE TOBACCO FIELDS
Transplanting flue-cured near Nashville, N.C. [File photo by Chris Bickers]VIRGINIA--In the Virginia Piedmont, rains were hit and miss last week, Lunenburg County Extension agent Lindy Tucker said,...
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SPOTTED WILT BEATS A PATH THROUGH THE BRIGHT BELT
Tomato spotted wilt virus ravages a field in south Georgia.GEORGIA-FLORIDA--Tomato spotted wilt had appeared earlier in the season in the Type 14 states, but the pace picked up considerably in the week...
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BURLEY CROP: SOME SET EARLY, SOME LATE
A crop spread out in transplanting: A lot of the Bluegrass burley crop was planted late, but not this field. "I am 77 and have been growing tobacco nearly all my life, but I don't ever recall setting...
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BURLEY TRANSPLANTING ENDS, FLUE-CURED HARVEST BEGINS
Transplanting appears to be done. One of the last to finish was the Raines burley farm in Seaman, Ohio, near Ripley, which wound up on June 13. Pat Raines, who farms with his sons Todd and Greg, says...
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USDA PROJECTS: FLUE-CURED PLANTINGS DOWN FOUR PERCENT, BURLEY UP ONE, DARK UP...
From:Bickers Editing Service Subject:USDA REPORTS: FLUE PLANTINGS DOWN, BURLEY & DARK UPPreheader:Reply:chrisbickers@gmail.comTOBACCO FARMERNEWSLETTERJuly I 2017Welcome to the July II issue of...
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HARVEST BEGINS IN EARNEST
Looking to the sky: Farmer Brandon Batten demonstrated how he uses a drone on his tobacco near Four Oaks, N.C., as part of the N.C. Tobacco Tour on July 24. There is definitely a future for drones in...
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INCREASES LIKELY IN BURLEY AND DARK VOLUME
This harvest crew on a Southside Virginia farm bales flue-cured leaf.USDA has projected 14 percent more burley production and five per cent more flue-cured production in 2017 compared to last year...
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HEADING OFF HURRICANE DAMAGE
The effects of flooding on burley, from 2013 storm.HOW TO HEAD OFF HURRICANE DAMAGENow is the time to think about--and take action to avoid--possible losses in the field and curing barns as a result of...
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WILL THE BURLEY CROP MAKE IT INTO THE BARN BEFORE FROST?
A migrant harvest crew from Latin America hand picks flue-cured leaf on a farm near Raleigh, N.C., in this file photo by Chris Bickers. An early frost in Kentucky could find much of the burley crop...
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WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE THE HURRICANE?
What hurricane? This burley at the Upper Mountain Research Station at Laurel Springs in northwest N.C. was cut and wilting in the field on September 19. (Photo by Stan Biconish.)CROP CONDITIONS AFTER...
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HOW MUCH TOBACCO DID YOU REALLY PRODUCE THIS YEAR?
Contestants at the tobacco-tying contest at the N.C. State Fair show off their stringing ability. The wining team was the " Looping Fools" of Maple Hill (not shown). Team members Sandy and Ken Jones of...
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FLUE-CURED AND BURLEY PROJECTIONS KEEP DROPPING
Burley wilts in the field near Lafayette, Tn.How credible are USDA's recent estimates? As reported in the last issue, in its October Crop Production Report, USDA projected the U.S. flue-cured crop at...
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