CORESTA Congress, Online, 2022, Agronomy/Phytopathology Groups, AP 09
Effect of ridging and hilling on dark tobacco standability and sucker control
(1) University of Kentucky, Research & Education Center, Princeton, KY, U.S.A.; (2) University of Tennessee, Highland Rim AgResearch & Education Center, Springfield, TN, U.S.A.
Sucker control practices for dark tobacco are done primarily with contact and local systemic agrochemicals. These are applied as labor-intensive, manual stalk-rundown applications with droplines due to the tendency of dark tobacco to have crooked...