Tobacco Planting's on in Earnest

 

(Tobacco Farmer Newsletter) NORTH CAROLINA - Transplanting in the Piedmont is right on time, in contrast to the Coastal Plain, which is behind. "The Piedmont hasn't had as much rainfall in the past two weeks, which allowed farmers to do field work," says N.C. Extension tobacco specialist Matthew Vann. "But the Coastal Plain is having to catch up." Continued