Tobacco insect scouting report. July 17, 2014
It is now week twelve for our weekly scouting report and pest pressure is lower compared to the past few weeks. Due to topping at most sites, tobacco budworm populations are down, and hornworms MORE »
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Tobacco insect scouting report. July 9, 2014 popular
It is week eleven for our weekly scouting reports. Budworm pressure is relatively similar to last week. With most sites planning to top within the next week or two, we expected to see the MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. July 3, 2014 popular
We are in our tenth week of scouting, and tobacco budworms are still active at most sites. Although, fewer sites exceed thresholds. Some fields are starting to flower, and these flowers are particularly attractive MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. June 26, 2014 popular
It is our ninth week of scouting, and we are starting to see higher numbers of tobacco budworms at all locations. We have observed a few other insects, such as Japanese Beetles and MORE »
What’s up with all these budworms? popular
We exceed tobacco budworm thresholds at several of our scouting locations last week, which was also the case for a number of growers. This week, however, scouting at some of these same locations has MORE » – from 
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Tobacco insect scouting report. June 20, 2014
In our eight week of scouting, we exceeded threshold for one of the key tobacco pests for the first time! Our Eastern 1 (Grower Standard) and Eastern 2 (IPM) fields were both over MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. June 12, 2014
It is our seventh week of scouting at our IPM and grower standard fields. The tobacco plants are looking healthy, given substantial sunshine and rain over the past week. Budworms have started showing up MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. June 6, 2014
It is our sixth week of tobacco scouting, and this week brought a few changes. A small number of plants have shown signs of being infected with tomato spotted wilt virus, and budworms have MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. May 30, 2014
Our weekly scouting, now in week five, has shown a slight increase in flea beetle activity, but still well below the threshold amounts required to begin treatment. After reports of budworms in some MORE »
Layby Weed Control Options for Flue-Cured Tobacco Production
Introduction Weed control has always been a major focus of tobacco farmers; however, within recent years this issue has gained increasing attention for a number of reasons. With a growing emphasis on export MORE »
Questions about thrips in tobacco
This week growers, agents, and consultants have noticed unusually large numbers of thrips on tobacco. This is no surprise to cotton growers, who have been asking about thrips for a few weeks. Agent MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. May 21, 2014
Plants have grown quite a bit in the last week, likely due to increased rainfall. There were a couple of flea beetle sightings in our Eastern 4 IPM field, but most fields showed no MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. May 16, 2014
It is week three monitoring the Integrated Pest Management fields and the grower standard fields in our Eastern and Piedmont locations. Heavy rainfall left most fields in muddy conditions, but overall plant health MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. May 9, 2014
It is week two for scouting in our Eastern 1 and 2 research fields. In order to potentially reduce pesticide use, grower costs, and pesticide residue in cured-leaf, research is being conducted at MORE »
Tobacco insect control and transplant water treatments
Tobacco growers often apply insecticides in the greenhouse or at transplant to preventatively manage populations of green peach aphids and tobacco flea beetles. In recent years, some growers have also begun to use MORE » – from Entomology
Tobacco insect scouting update. May 2, 2014
This summer, we have begun a new project focussed on implementing integrated pest management (IPM) practices for insects in commercial tobacco fields. This project was inspired by observations during our GAP training sessions MORE »
Addressing Boron Issues in North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco
Introduction In recent growing seasons, boron (B) nutrition has become an increasing issue across the state. While B demand for flue-cured tobacco is relatively low ( MORE »
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus risk forecasting in tobacco
As many part of North Carolina near transplant, now is the time when growers are also thinking about Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) management. TSWV is vectored by several species of thrips, and MORE » – from Entomology
Availability of Potassium Sulfate for the 2014 Tobacco Growing Season
As many are probably aware, we are getting reports from multiple sources that the availability of potassium sulfate (sulfate of potash, 0-0-50) for the upcoming growing MORE »
Reducing Phosphorus Fertilizer Inputs to Flue-Cured Tobacco
Introduction Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for the production of flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina. A healthy crop of flue-cured tobacco will require 12-15 pounds per acre of the nutrient (1,2); MORE »
Weed Seed Contamination in US Produced Flue-Cured Tobacco Leaf
Introduction The seed of noxious weed species has recently been discovered in cured tobacco leaves destined for export from the United States. The tobacco industry was contacted in early 2013 and notification MORE »
Potassium Fertility: An Overview of Nutrient Demand, Application Rates, and Deficiency
Introduction Potassium (K) is an essential plant nutrient for the production of high-yielding, high-quality flue-cured tobacco with a healthy crop requiring about 90 pounds per acre for optimum growth (1-3). The tobacco MORE »
Identifying Hornworms
Two species of hornworm caterpillars feed on tobacco and other plants. Tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta) and tomato hornworms (Manduca quinquemaculata) are easy to confuse. They both have similar appearance, life cycles, and eat MORE » – from Entomology
Weed seed concerns in tobacco highlighted in Southeast Farm Press
Recent concerns with weed seed contamination in tobacco are highlight in the Southeast Farm Press which also describes research at NC State on tobacco weed managment. More information Weed seed contamination could cripple U.S. MORE »
