Ontario tobacco harvest at 50 million pounds

TILLSONBURG (Brantford Expositor) Ontario tobacco growers are about to finish bringing in a harvest that will meet a total 50 million pounds in licensed contracts with cigarette manufacturers. To do it, though, they had to fend off the strong pressures of some pests and the onset of opportunistic viruses, mostly due to the summer's hot weather.
Growers licensed under the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board, and concentrated in the counties of Norfolk, Brant, Oxford, Elgin and Middlesex, are close to completing the harvest, after having to conduct one of the most sustained irrigation campaigns in recent memory against drought conditions. Continued