50th TWC, Tob. Work. Conf., 2022, abstr. 36
Effect of ridging on dark tobacco standability and sucker control
RODGERS C.(1); BAILEY W.A.(1); RICHMOND M.D.(3); ELLIS R.(2)
(1) University of Kentucky, Research & Education Center, Princeton, KY, USA; (2) University of Tennessee, Highland Rim Research & Education Center, Springfield, TN, USA; (3) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
Sucker control practices for dark tobacco are done primarily with contact and local systemic products applied as labor-intensive, manual stalk-rundown applications with droplines due to the tendency of dark tobacco to have crooked stalks at the time...