North Carolina tobacco harvest nears completion
Oct 12, 2007—The dry season continues as North Carolina leaf goes into the curing barns. The USDA Crop Summary for the week that ended October 7 indicated that Tar Heel growers are nearly through harvesting both flue-cured and burley tobacco.
Flue-cured leaf was at 86 percent harvested, ahead of last week’s 84 percent but behind last year, when at the same time the harvest was at 94 percent.
Burley harvest is ahead of last year, at 92 percent harvested. That is a sharp increase from last week, when only 86 percent had been taken from the fields, and well ahead of last year’s pace of 81 percent.
Both crops will be in curing for some time, especially burley, as curing and stripping operations get into high gear.
The Tar Heel State continues to suffer as the drought’s severity increases. As of October 7, the topsoil moisture was 59 percent very short and 32 percent short across the state, with the most acute shortage in the fertile Piedmont region, where only one percent of the topsoil moisture is adequate.
All 100 counties of North Carolina are in some stage of drought. Cotton, hay and soybeans are all in generally poor condition.
Oct 12, 2007—The dry season continues as North Carolina leaf goes into the curing barns. The USDA Crop Summary for the week that ended October 7 indicated that Tar Heel growers are nearly through harvesting both flue-cured and burley tobacco.
Flue-cured leaf was at 86 percent harvested, ahead of last week’s 84 percent but behind last year, when at the same time the harvest was at 94 percent.
Burley harvest is ahead of last year, at 92 percent harvested. That is a sharp increase from last week, when only 86 percent had been taken from the fields, and well ahead of last year’s pace of 81 percent.
Both crops will be in curing for some time, especially burley, as curing and stripping operations get into high gear.
The Tar Heel State continues to suffer as the drought’s severity increases. As of October 7, the topsoil moisture was 59 percent very short and 32 percent short across the state, with the most acute shortage in the fertile Piedmont region, where only one percent of the topsoil moisture is adequate.
All 100 counties of North Carolina are in some stage of drought. Cotton, hay and soybeans are all in generally poor condition.
