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The Rohrers finished
topping last Monday, and the
acreage that was cut had
been topped three weeks
before.
Rohrer said ihat the
weather in his area was
excellent this year. There
was only moderate rain with
never more than an inch and
a half at a time, and no hail.
He also mentioned that they
never had rain that washed,
either.
While it has been reported
that the etch virus is the
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biggest problem this season,
Rohrer did not have a par
ticular problem with it. Nor
has his crop had black shank
disease or a large amount of
aphids. He reported that this
year’s crop did have some
aphids, but spraying for
suckers eradicated that
problem.
Overall, he predicts that
he’ll get about a ton to the
acre this year.
According to John Yocum,
manager of the Penn State
Southeast Field Research
Laboratory at Landisville,
this estimate is conservative
for the area. Yocum thinks
crops should yield about 1800
pounds to a ton (per acre)
this year.
Further east in the county
around Witmer, cutting has
also been going on, but the
condition of the crop is quite
different.
“Not too great” is the term
one person used to describe
the hail cut, wind blown
tobacco that was being
harvested last week.
Just as some fanners in
this area were ready to start
harvesting, on July 29, a
vicious storm with pea-sized
hail swept through the area,
depositing almost three
inches of rain in an hour.
This left the tobacco in poor
condition.
Farmers are hoping that
the smaller tobacco will
recover, and that a good
harvest will be possible a
little later on in the season.
Near Strasburg, the same
storm minus the hail hit the
area but left only slight
damage. The worst problem
was that it caused a little of
the tobacco to stand crooked,
but with good weather
ahead, the sun should be able
to draw it up again.
One farmer near
Strasburg reported a severe
problem with aphids at the
beginning of the season, but
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that has all cleared up now
because of sucker spraying.
Near East Petersburg,
Warren Witmer, Manheim
R 7, also says that most of his
crop is “real good,” but that
he has some spots that got
too much water and some
with possible pesticide run
off from the com. He has not
begun cutting as yet, but
expects to start shortly.
“It used to be early to start
cutting by the 10th of
August,” he remarked.
“Now some people have
started in July.”
There are some farmers
who are not ahead of
schedule, however. One
Lamar Huber gets into the swing of tobacco
spearing at the farm of Wilmer Rohrer, Lancaster
R 2. Rohrer started cutting on July 28 and had five
acres put away in a week’s time.
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farmer in the Mt. Joy area
reported that the replanted
crops were coming along
fine, but that topping was
still in the future because
replanting had set him back
2-2% weeks.
Besides the early hail
which damaged all the
plants during the second
week of June, there are other
problems to contend with.
“We think now of early
frost,” he said. Not only that,
but heavy ram has washed
some sprays from the com
into the plants.
Luckily, there has been
little problem with aphids,
black shank or tobacco etch.
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