Daviess County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019
| 1073 - Tobacco | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1073.2) | 112 |
Number of producers adopting practices that improve profitability |
| 1073.3) | 51 |
Number of producers utilizing tobacco varieties with appropriate disease resistance for their farm |
| 1073.4) | 22 |
Number of producers who used UK diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and/or weeds in tobacco |
| 1073.5) | 14 |
Number of producers who adopted one or more UK fertility management recommendations for tobacco |
| 1073.6) | 12 |
Number of producers who utilized UK soil testing services for tobacco |
| 1073.7) | 2 |
Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials for tobacco |
| 1073.8) | 18 |
Number of producers adopting tobacco production practices that improve environmental/water quality |
| 1073.1) | 112 |
Number of producers completing GAP training |
Success Stories
Make Tobacco Great Again
Author: Clinton Hardy
Major Program: Tobacco
Diversification of Daviess County agricultural enterprises has been an ongoing effort the past 20 years following a period of enterprise consolidation. Farms spent much of the 1980’s and 1990’s transitioning from multiple livestock, grain and tobacco enterprises to concentration of resources of only two or three grain crops in rotation, an expansion of tobacco production following the introduction of the H2A guest worker p
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