Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 5/12/20


By now, much of the resulting injury from Sunday morning’s (5/10) frost event has been evaluated. In general, it appears that most of the tobacco belt was spared from frost accumulation; however, there are localized areas that experienced anything from a light to a heavy event. Painting this situation with a broad brush is very difficult because there were places that didn’t get frost that probably should have (due to geographic location) and vice versa. For example, we did not record any frost at Central Crops Research Station (on the Wake/Johnston line southeast of Raleigh); however, social media exchanges tell us that places further south weren’t so fortunate.

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