Greenhouse Nutrition popular
There has been a lot of discussion about the do’s and don’ts of greenhouse fertility management. As we approach the greenhouse season, take a look at these publications from the Soil Science Department MORE »
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Tobacco GAP Meeting Schedule
Fifteen GAP recertification meetings will be held in North Carolina during January and February of 2015. You can find meeting dates and details for these as well as meetings in GA, SC, VA, MORE »
Tobacco scouting finished for the season
Tobacco harvest and insect populations are winding down. Last week, the grower at our Eastern 1 and 2 sites and the crew at our Upper Coastal Plain Research Station sites finished priming, so our MORE »
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, September 12, 2014
We are at week twenty of scouting. Scouting was done earlier in the week for the Piedmont site, and now they are wrapping up their harvesting. Only Eastern 1 & 2 locations will have tobacco plants remaining MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report, September 5, 2014
We are at week nineteen of scouting, and harvesting is happening at all locations. The Piedmont site continued with harvesting this week and the Eastern 3 & 4 locations have completed harvesting this week. Since harvesting is completed MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. August 29, 2014
We are at week eighteen of scouting. Two of our eastern sites are almost done with harvesting, while harvesting continues at our other locations. None of our grower plots have hornworms or flea beetles MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. August 22, 2014
It is week seventeen with our scouting reports, and not much change can be seen. There are still a few flea beetles, but well under threshold amounts. Hornworm pressure seems to be declining, MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. August 15, 2014
It is week sixteen of our weekly scouting report, and harvest has begun! Most sites are beginning to harvest and some are close to a second priming in the next one to two weeks. Flea MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. August 8, 2014
It is now the fifteenth week of scouting! The budworm pressure has dropped significantly over the past couple of weeks as plants at all sites have been topped and are under good sucker MORE »
Aphids in (mostly organic) tobacco
Several questions on have come in the during the past week about aphids on tobacco. In most cases, these questions were related to management in organic tobacco, where aphids are the most difficult MORE » – from 
Entomology
Tobacco insect scouting report. August 4, 2014
It is week fourteen of our weekly scouting program, and numbers remain low. Flea beetle numbers have increased somewhat but are still low enough to not cause any substantial damage. We have observed a MORE »
Tobacco insect scouting report. July 25, 2014
It is now week thirteen of scouting, and our one of our locations has begun harvest! There has been little change in insect activity, although there has been a slight decrease in budworm MORE »
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 »
Tobacco insect scouting report. July 9, 2014
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
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
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?
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 Entomology
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 »
