Cutting tobacco stalks after the last harvest has always been a very satisfying task. Today’s mechanical harvesters include stalk choppers. But this is not the last job to be completed to end this year’s tobacco season and prepare for the future. Additional tasks to complete the tobacco production season include…
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The wet spring resulted in an exceptionally heavy germination of weed seeds to plague the 2014 tobacco crop. While many growers have successfully controlled weeds in their crop there are a few that have not gotten the message that part of the market for US produced tobacco depends on tobacco that is free of both weed stems and leaves as well as seed.
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Although this is not the typical production system most growers think of, this is another benefit of tobacco and demonstrates one of the multitude of products tobacco plants can be engineered to produce. Think laboratories and greenhouses filled with tobacco plants working to produce proteins beneficial to mankind. Many of these products may be helpful in solving health related issues faced by people all over the world. This gives quite a different perception of the possible end products of plants tobacco growers work with every day. See the full article at the link below.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-05/ebola-drug-made-from-tobacco-plant-saves-u-s-aid-workers.html
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The summer of Tobacco Tours has just begun. See the Tobacco Calendar
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Recent temperatures and bright sunshine have combined to cause minor speckling of upper expanding leaves on rapidly growing and tender plants.
The 2014 Georgia – Florida Tobacco Tour wrapped up today with another successful tour which visited successful growers, production issues, on-farm demonstrations, tobacco research on the UGA Tifton Campus Bowen Farm and many of the tobacco producing counties in Florida and Georgia.
Over the last week black shank was reported in several tobacco crops across Georgia.
