University Update Tennessee and Kentucky Burley and Dark Tobacco

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University Update Tennessee and Kentucky Burley
and Dark Tobacco

• Paul Denton
• Burley Extension Specialist
• University of Tennessee
• University of Kentucky

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TN-KY Burley Update Acreage

• Down from 2009 overall
• Kentucky down
• USDA planting intentions down 5000 ac (7)
• Indications may be down more (10)
• Tennessee steady or slightly up
• USDA projects 1000 ac increase (7)
• Receiving station changes relatively favorable to
  TN

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Dark Tobacco Update Acreage

• Down from 2009
• USDA planting intentions (TN and KY)
• 15,000 ac fire cured (down 3)
• 5,800 ac air cured (unchanged)
• Bailey (UK) estimate
• 14,000 ac fire cured
• 7,000 ac air cured

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TN/KY Burley Update Transplanting Progress

• Started on time in early May
• Fell behind in mid May due to rain
• Caught up rapidly in late May and early June
• 80 transplanted (June 10)
• Half transplanted in May

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Dark Tobacco Update Transplanting Progress

• More rain in dark growing area
• Delayed transplanting
• Suppressed early growth
• Problem for double curing
• Early and late crops too close
• Progress
• USDA-NASS says 75 transplanted in KY
• Bailey (UK) estimates 55 60

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TN and KY Update Crop Conditions/Problems

• Overall condition fair to good
• Problems Greenhouse
• Collar rot, bacterial rot, target spot
• Problems Field
• Earliest set damaged by too much water
• Recently some newly transplanted fields damaged
  by hot, dry conditions

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TN and KY Update Producer Concerns

• Dark fire
• Availability of slabs and sawdust
• Burley
• Market uncertainty
• Cured leaf quality

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KT 204, 206 and 209

• Predominant burley varieties
• High yield
• Very good black shank resistance
• Quality ???
• Many complaints in 07 and 08

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Factors that Control Leaf Quality

• Curing Season
• Timing of Harvest
• Variety

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University Tobacco Program Update UT/UK

• Decreasing state funding
• Fewer people in tobacco work
• Faculty retirements
• Gene Burgess, UT Entomologist
• Lowell Bush, UK Tobacco Chemist
• Jim Calvert, UK Agronomist
• County agent positions likely to decrease
• Experiment station staff reductions
• Industry support more and more vital