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XXI. Tobacco Insect R.M. McPherson and D.C. Jones Tobacco was harvested from 42,000 acres in 1995, up 132
percent from the 1994 acreage. Georgia's average yield was 2,000 pounds per acre, down from the 2,180 pounds produced the previous year. The average price received in 1995 was $175.90 per cwt, up $10 from the 1994 price, marking the value of the crop $148 million.
The tobacco budworm remained the number one pest of the crop, with total losses exceeding $1.7 million. This was up from 1994, when this pest caused $1.3 million in losses. Most of the losses in 1995 were due to the cost of
controlling this pest. The soil insect pests, i.e. wireworms and mole crickets, were the next most economically damaging pests, collectively costing Georgia producers over $1.6 million. Nearly two-thirds of these losses were due
to control costs. Hornworms and aphids were the fourth and fifth ranked insect pests in 1995, costing producers $0.3 and $0.2 million, respectively. Thrips were also reported as an economic pest in 1995, totaling $0.1 million in
losses. All of the reported thrips losses were due to costs of control, although spotted wilt virus was a serious problem in many producer's fields. This pathogen is vectored only by certain thrips species. All other pests
accounted for $56,000 in losses in 1995. These pests were primarily stink bugs, flea beetles, grasshoppers, splitworms, and cutworms. |
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Insect |
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Tobacco budworm |
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Wireworms |
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Mole crickets |
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Tobacco hornworms |
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Tobacco aphid |
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Thrips |
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Other pests |
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Total |
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Cost of Control |
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$1,244,000 |
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693,000 |
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335,000 |
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218,000 |
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106,000 |
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106,000 |
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35,000 |
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$2,737,000 |
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Damage |
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$473,000 |
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177,000 |
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443,000 |
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118,000 |
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103,000 |
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1 |
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21,000 |
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$1,335,000 |
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Total |
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$1,717,000 |
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870,000 |
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778,000 |
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336,000 |
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209,000 |
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106,000 |
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56,000 |
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$4,072,000 |
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Tobacco budworm |
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Tobacco hornworms |
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No. Acres Treated |
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42,000 |
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26,650 |
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12,900 |
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19,000 |
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9,000 |
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9,000 |
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3,000 |
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No. of Acre Appl. |
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2.5 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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Ave. Cost Per Unit Treated1 |
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11.85 |
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26 |
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26 |
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11.5 |
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11.75 |
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11.75 |
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11.6 |
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Yield Loss on Units Treated2 |
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269,000 |
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90,000 |
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240,000 |
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67,000 |
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59,000 |
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0 |
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10,000 |
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Yield Loss on Units Untreated2 |
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0 |
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10,000 |
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12,000 |
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0 |
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0 |
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0 |
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2,000 |
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