Superstorm Sandy had little effect on tobacco

 

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) ... The Pennsylvania tobacco-growing area was as close to the storm's damage area as any leaf area, but Jeff Graybill, Pennsylvania Extension tobacco agronomy educator, said the impact was not great. "There was virtually no hail or storm damage, and no barns went down," he said. "No tobacco was still in the field. We'd had a hard frost on October 12, and harvest ended soon after that. Continued