Wet weather puts damper on Robeson County’s tobacco crop

LUMBERTON, NC (robesonian.com) Recent rains have prevented some Robeson County tobacco farmers from harvesting their tobacco fields, and disease within the crops is creating an urgency to get the tobacco out of the field before they lose any more of their crop. “The farmers are up against it trying to get the crop out of the field as fast as they can with the barn space that they have. They can’t cure it all at one time,” said Mac Malloy, the county field crops agent with the Agricultural Extension Service. Continued