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This guide for growers, updated annually, provides information on production and pest management practices applicable to growing flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina.
This publication, part of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, lists North Carolina extension personnel that work in tobacco production.
An illustration of the tobacco plant, part of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook.
This publication, chapter 1 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, describes the current US tobacco market.
This publication, chapter 2 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, provides a general overview of the laws that affect farm workers.
This publication, chapter 3 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, discusses tobacco varieties and variety testing.
This publication, chapter 4 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, discusses tobacco management practices that improve stands and promote uniform growth.
This publication, chapter 5 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, offers information of managing nutrients in tobacco production.
This publication, chapter 6 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, provides information on a weed management program for tobacco production.
This publication, chapter 7 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, provides information on topping tobacco and using ethephon, the only chemical approved for yellowing tobacco in the field.
This publication, chapter 8 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, covers disease management in tobacco production.
This publication, chapter 9 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, covers insect management in tobacco production.
This publication, chapter 10 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, offers information on the most efficient use of fuel and electricity while maintaining the highest cured leaf quality.
This publication, chapter 11 of the 2024 Flue-Cured Tobacco Information handbook, describes some measures that tobacco producers and professional applicators can take to minimize the threat to people and water quality and reduce pesticide exposure to humans and wildlife.