Last minute plantings swell burley tobacco acreage 9%

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its first acreage report for the 2012 tobacco crop at the end of June.
Burley plantings increased noticeably since the Prospective Plantings projection in march, from 94,700 acres, which would have been a seven percent from last season, to 96,800 acres, up nearly nine percent. Much of the increase for this season is coming from the two leading burley states. Continued