Major changes are coming in 2022 for county tobacco meetings.

Since the creation of the US Tobacco GAP Program in 2012, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service has provided GAP training on an annual basis. This will not be the case in 2022. Growers that are needing to fulfill the annual training requirement will do so at events hosted by GAP Connections. A list of North Carolina meetings can be found on the GAP Connections website.

This change means that county meetings will be hosted exclusively by local Extension Agents and that attendance will NOT satisfy the mandatory GAP training requirements from contracting companies. A total of 13 county meetings will be hosted by Extension Agents across North Carolina. Information for those meetings can be found on the Tobacco Growers Portal.

We look forward to hosting these production meetings. As always, please contact your local Extension agent for more information!