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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




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Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021


TobaccoMajor Program

5081

Total Hours

Contributed.

36089

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

603

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

12

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of producers achieving iTobacco GAP certification

 836

NNumber of producers who participated in Tobacco GAP training

 1367

Number of producers who used Extension information to select varieties of tobacco with appropriate disease resistance

1277

Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials for tobacco  production

 201

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Stories Behind the Numbers

  • CT Broadleaf Wrapper Tobacco

    about 3 years ago by Clinton Hardy

    Tobacco remains an important crop economically to hundreds of farms in Daviess County. Due to unknown reasons, dark air-cure tobacco contracts were reduced 48% in the spring of 2020 cutting the gross ... Read More

  • Adaptable GAP Training

    about 3 years ago by Shane Bogle

    Caldwell and Trigg counties produce a significant amount of tobacco. Both counties combine for 2,213 acres of all tobacco types of tobacco including the more recent Pennsylvania boadleaf wrapper. Alth... Read More

  • Tobacco GAP trainings

    about 3 years ago by John Fourqurean

    The past several years Mclean County like most counties tobacco production has certainly declined. However there are still several tobacco producers that have now started relying on the McLean County ... Read More

  • GAP

    about 3 years ago by Matthew Futrell

    Good Agriculture Practices has become a very common phrase in the last ten years in the agriculture industry. As consumers become more aware of where and how their food and other products are raised, ... Read More

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  • Acting Associate Dean & Director — Craig Wood, Ph.D. 
  • S107 Ag. Science Center North
  • Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  • +1 (859) 257-4302

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