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2025 Flue-Cured Tobacco Guide

By: Jeffrey Dorfman, Jonathan Phillips, Matthew C. Vann, Maggie James, Jeremy Machacek, Joseph Cheek, Loren R. Fisher, Luke Gatiboni, Charles W. Cahoon, D. Scott Whitley, Daisy Ahumada, Adrienne Gorny, Lorena Lopez, Clyde Sorenson, Grant Ellington, Kyle Bostian, Catherine LePrevost

This guide for growers, updated annually, provides information on production and pest management practices applicable to growing flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina.

Steam: An Alternative Method of Float Tray Sanitation

By: Kyle Bostian, Grant Ellington, Justin Macialek

Due to the limited availability of methyl bromide, tobacco growers need other methods to sanitize float trays prior to reseeding every year. This factsheet offers information on using steam as an alternative.

Curing and Mechanization

By: Grant Ellington, Kyle Bostian

This publication, chapter 10 of the 2025 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, offers information on the most efficient use of fuel and electricity while maintaining the highest cured leaf quality.