Clint Thompson of UGA published an article this week in Growing Georgia which notes the unusually large losses in tobacco this year due to black shank disease. He said that losses were between 4 and 5 percent of the state’s 12,000-plus tobacco acres. The heaviest losses were in Coffee and Berrien counties, Georgia’s top tobacco-producing counties. Most of the losses can be attributed to heavy rains in April, which washed away chemical treatments and caused favorable conditions for the growth of the infections. You can read the full story here.
