SC tobacco bucks trend of falling yields
Sep 17, 2007—South Carolina flue-cured tobacco has bucked the trend of other crops in the Palmetrto State and is projecting to sustain the yields originally projected at the beginning of the year.
The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service South Carolina Field Office in Columbia has reported that yield projections for the state’s cotton, corn, peanuts and soybeans were all down from the previous year. But tobacco projections are forecast to be slightly higher than the previous year.
Early-season scattered rain – and the overall hardiness of the plant in dry conditions – was credited for tobacco’s strong performance.
Flue-cured prodiction will total 49.5 million pounds, up two percent from last season, The average yield per acre is forecast at 2,250 pounds, up seven percent from last season. The state has forecast 22,000 acres of tobacco for harvest, which is down 1,000 acres from a year ago.
This follows the gradual trend of tobacco-producing states to grow more leaf over fewer acres, which has been happening since the 2004 buyout was enacted.
Sep 17, 2007—South Carolina flue-cured tobacco has bucked the trend of other crops in the Palmetrto State and is projecting to sustain the yields originally projected at the beginning of the year.
The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service South Carolina Field Office in Columbia has reported that yield projections for the state’s cotton, corn, peanuts and soybeans were all down from the previous year. But tobacco projections are forecast to be slightly higher than the previous year.
Early-season scattered rain – and the overall hardiness of the plant in dry conditions – was credited for tobacco’s strong performance.
Flue-cured prodiction will total 49.5 million pounds, up two percent from last season, The average yield per acre is forecast at 2,250 pounds, up seven percent from last season. The state has forecast 22,000 acres of tobacco for harvest, which is down 1,000 acres from a year ago.
This follows the gradual trend of tobacco-producing states to grow more leaf over fewer acres, which has been happening since the 2004 buyout was enacted.
