B6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 3,1981
Blue mold strikes
Md. tobacco fields
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Blue
mold, a dreaded tobacco fungus
disease of recent vintage in the
United States, has hit the tobacco
crop in extreme southern
Maryland. The outbreak may be
the largest of its kind in the nation
so far this year.
It was identified during the third
week in June by Claude G. McKee,
Extension tobacco specialist and
professor of agronomy on the
University of Maryland faculty.
McKee is also farm superintendent
for the University’s tobacco
research farm near Upper
Marlboro (Prince Georges
County).
He reports the outbreaks appear
to be only in fields where the new
systemic fungicide, Ridomil, was
not used in the tobacco plant beds
or at transplanting time.
Approximately 40 percent of the
tobacco fields in southern
Maryland have been treated this
year with Ridomil, McKee com
mented. So they would appear to
be safe from blue mold infestation
during the current growing season.
In those fields where blue mold is
suspected, the Maryland Ex
tension specialist advocates im
mediate spraying with maneb or
zineb fungicides at rates recom
mended by the dealer or county
Extension tobacco agent.
McKee notes Ridomil is labeled
only for soil application —not as a
contact fungicide and it is
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relatively expensive. But with blue
mold continuing to cause concern,
it will be a necessity in future
years to treat all tobacco plant
beds with Ridomil.
Meanwhile, tobacco farmers still
involved with transplanting are
cautioned not to use plants which
show any indication of disease.
And the Maryland agronomist
admonishes fanners to destroy
tobacco plant beds as soon as
transplanting is finished.
At mid-June, when the blue mold
outbreak was noted in southern
Maryland, only two small in
festations of the disease had been
reported in U.S. tobacco-growing
areas so far this year. They were in
Dixie County, Fla., and Lancaster
County.
Blue mold outbreaks are
generally brought on by too much
cool, damp weather during the
tobacco-growing season. The
malady has been a problem in
plant beds for some time. But it
was first observed actively in
festing Maryland tobacco fields in
1979.
Information on identification
and control procedures for blue
mold, along with wildfire and
anthracnose, will be included in
one of the six wagon tour stops
during the Thirty-First Annual
Field Day on July 29 at the
University of Maryland’s tobacco
research farm near Upper
Marlboro.
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