USDA PROJECTS: FLUE-CURED PLANTINGS DOWN FOUR PERCENT, BURLEY UP ONE, DARK UP SIX

The dark types, like  this Virginia dark  fire-cured tobacco growing  at the Blackstone, Va.,  research station a year ago,  are all enjoying a  resurgence in  production. According  to USDA, dark  plantings in all  three states are up  this summer, with the tiny Virginia crop leading in relative  increase at plus 35 percent. You can see dark and flue-cured  research at the Blackstone station field day on July 27. USDA's first survey of this year's crop showed a small  decrease in flue-cured plantings, a small increase in  burley plantings and a substantial increase in dark  plantings, no doubt to the weather-damaged 2016  production. Following are USDA's projections for the  major types broken out by state, with percentage change  at the end of each line. FLUE-CURED:  North Carolina, 160,000 acres, down three percent. Virginia, 21,000 acres, down four percent. South Carolina, 12,000 acres, down seven percent. Georgia, 12,500 acres, down seven percent. All states, 205,500 acres, down four per-cent,  BURLEY:  Kentucky, 60,000 acres, down one percent. Tennessee, 14,000 acres, up 16 percent. Pennsylvania, 4,500 acres, down six percent. Virginia, 1,100 acres, down eight percent. North Carolina, 900 acres, down 10 percent. All states, 80,500 acres, up one percent. FIRE-CURED:  Kentucky, 10,000 acres, up five percent. Tennessee, 7,500 acres, up seven percent. Virginia, 400 acres, up 35 percent. All states--17,900 acres, up six percent.  DARK AIR-CURED:  Kentucky, 5,800 acres, up four percent. Tennessee, 1,300 acres, up eight percent. All states--6,300 acres, up six percent. PENNSYLVANIA SEEDLEAF Pennsylvania, 1,600 acres, no change. SOUTHERN MARYLAND: Pennsylvania, 1,800 acres, no change. DATES TO REMEMBER July 24-26. N.C. Tobacco Tour.--Monday, 3:30 p.m.:  Triple B Farms, Bentonville. 5:30 p.m.: Welcome  reception (5:30 p.m.) and dinner (6 p.m.) at Lane's  Seafoods, McGee's Crossroads.--Tuesday, July 25: Oxford  Tobacco Research Station, 7:45 am, Breakfast and Field Tour. --11 a.m. Lunch, then to Upper Coastal Plain Research  Station, Rocky Mount.--Wednesday, July 26:  Lower Coastal Plain Research Station. 7:45 a.m. Breakfast  and Field Tour. 11 a.m. Lunch and Tour Conclusion. Contact  and to register: Tobacco.ces.ncsu.edu. July 27. VA Annual Tobacco Research Field Day, Southern  Piedmont Center, Blackstone. Registration begins at 5 p.m.,  dinner at 5:30 p.m., and the Field tour at 6 p.m. Contact  Margaret Kenny at makenny @vt .edu or 434-292-5331. August 9, 1 p.m. Kentucky Burley Tobacco Industry Tour, UK Spindletop Farm, 3250 Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Ky. To conclude around midday on August 10. ADVERTISINGADVERTISING

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