Abstract
In the early 1970's, researchers at the University of Kentucky produced burley tobacco by using no-tillage methods. These studies were abandoned a few years later due to poor growth, poor plant survival, and the lack of adequate weed control as the contributing factors. In 1984, the experimental production of no-tillage burley tobacco was reinitiated with the hopes that the newer herbicides would perform more effectively for no-tillage tobacco production. Burley producers could realize several potential advantages to no-tillage tobacco production if the yields produced by no-tillage were equal to or near those of conventional tillage. These potential advantages would include: the elimination of the need for plowing and disking a field in preparation for transplanting, reduced soil erosion, reduced soil water evaporation, cleaner cured tobacco, more flexibility in timing during transplanting and at harvest, and possibly lower production costs.
Publication Date
1990
Volume
11
Number
3
Repository Citation
Zeleznik, Jack M. and Phillips, R. E., "Production of No-Tillage Burley Tobacco" (1990). Soil Science News and Views. 156.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_views/156
