By Bob Pearce, UK Tobacco Specialist
Morning lows approaching the freezing mark are being predicted by this weekend for some areas. In most years we would have most if not all the tobacco harvested by now and frost damage in the field would not be much of a worry. However there does seem to be a fair amount of tobacco still out and prospects for getting much of it cut in the next three days are not good due forecasted rains. The conventional recommendation for field tobacco impacted by an “early” frost is to leave it standing for 3 days after the frost event to bleach the color. Regardless of frost damage late harvested burley tobacco is going to cure slowly and may have some green or greenish cast colors due to the relatively low temperatures typical of late October to December. Below is a link to a fact sheet authored by Dr. Gary Palmer on the management of frost impacted burley tobacco.
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/TobaccoProd/FactSheets/HTML/Tob-04-06.htm
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