Burley tobacco's resilience proven in extreme weather

Despite the apparent recovery of many burley fields, most burley growers were disappointed with the weight of the cured leaf in 2013. This is typical of a wet weather burley crop. The yield potential of a burley crop depends much more on what is below ground than what we see above ground. Burley tobacco will not put down a good root system in consistently wet soils and this will always result in lower cured leaf yields.