Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1073 - Tobacco | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1073.2) | 34 |
Number of producers achieving iTobacco GAP certification |
| 1073.1) | 66 |
NNumber of producers who participated in Tobacco GAP training |
| 1073.3) | 66 |
Number of producers who used Extension information to select varieties of tobacco with appropriate disease resistance |
| 1073.4) | 1 |
Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials for tobacco production |
Author: Clinton Hardy
Major Program: Tobacco
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 income by nearly half for our most lucrative tobacco type. To offset less tobacco income, some growers adopted a new type of tobacco for our area. Nearly 100 acres of Connecticut broadleaf cigar wrapper tobacco was grown in Daviess County in 2020 for the first time ever. Exte
