Ag Notes: Tobacco season ends, disease managment begins

(amnews.com) The 2010 tobacco growing season is nearing an end and farmers need to begin preparing now to manage diseases in the 2011 crop. There’s no way to tell what disease pressures growers will face in the coming growing season. Much depends on the climate when dealing with diseases like blue mold and target spot. However, some problems will show up again and again once certain diseases become established in a transplant system or the field. Continued

Image: A tobacco farm in Portage, Wisconsin by John Vachon, 1941 (FSA/Library of Congress)