An interesting tobacco news site

[BarG]

I found this while searching for info on Guatemalen! An easy to read news site on world tobacco production.

http://www.tobaccointernational.com/ Home page for archived past issues.

Digital archives seem to start mid 2006.

 

[rainmax]

Great. Some nice reading. Thanks.

 

[Knucklehead]

Good post BarG. Thanks.

 

[workhorse_01]

That's good reading . I hope tobacco emerges as one of the major factors that bring us out of the recession. That would rub their noses in it.

 

[FmGrowit]

Thanks for posting. Some potentially helpful information there.

 

[AmaxB]

Nice nice & it's free I'll be checking this out. Thanks for the post....bookmarked it in my tool bar

 

[BarG]

Heres an excerpt from leaf news 5-2007, This may be usefull info.....



"Some Kentucky burley had been set out around May 1, said Pearce. He expected about 10% of the crop to be in the field by the end of the first full week of May.
Pearce noted one problem in early May. "We are seeing plants with chill injury," he said. "We are ready to transplant, and some of the plants have ground suckers already."
This makes for a difficult start for the plant, he said. "If it goes under any more stress in the field, it can get full-fledged ground suckers that can be a problem after topping." There is a tactic for dealing with this situation. Pearce recommends that a farmer set his plants as deep in the soil as possible. "That can suppress ground suckers if you cover them up. Push as much dirt around the base of the plant as you can."