Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 12/6/21

The NC State Tobacco Short Course will return in in 2022! If you are a young tobacco farmer or new to the tobacco industry, we’d like to see you at our event.

This program is a four day production and marketing short course sponsored by the North Carolina Tobacco Research Commission, the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, Tobacco Associates, and the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University. The tobacco short course will be conducted from January 31, 2022, (beginning at 5:30 p.m.) through February 4, 2022, at 9 a.m. (after the Commissioner’s breakfast at the Holshouser Building on the NC State Fairgrounds).

The production course will include current information on variety selection, seedling production, cultural practices on fertilization, weed management, sucker control, disease and insect management, mechanization, fuel conservation in curing and economics of production, and marketing. On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, there will be an all-day session on Tobacco Grading.

Applications are now available at your local N.C. Cooperative Extension office, please contact your Extension agent for details.