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Tennessee - Kentucky Tobacco Expo
"The Center" in Springfield, Tennessee
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topics include variety selection, fertilization, pesticide applicator re-certification, irrigation, double crop curing dark tobacco.

TN-VA-NC Tobacco Expo
Civic Center in Kingsport, Tennessee
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Topics include variety selection, curing management, discussion panel, producer question and answer segment.

Tobacco Growth Regulator Meeting
Ramada Inn, Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina
8:00 AM
Joe Priest, North Carolina State University
919-515-4060

TWC Pesticide Committee Meeting
Ramada Inn, Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina
1:00 PM
Loren Fisher, North Carolina State University
919-515-4059

62nd Annual Meeting of Flue-cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation
U.S. Flue-cured Tobacco Growers, Inc.
Timberlake, North Carolina
Peggy Crowe, (919) 821-4560

Georgia-Florida Tobacco Tour
J. Michael Moore, (229) 386-3006

UK Field Day - " Agriculture in a New Bioeconomy"
Spindletop Farm
Lexington, Kentucky
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
J.D. Green, (859) 257-4898

Tobacco, Beef and More Field Day
Highland Rim Research and Education Center
Springfield, Tennessee
7:30 AM
Barry Sims, (615) 382-3130

South Carolina Tobacco Tour
Florence, South Carolina
Dewitt Gooden, (843) 662-3526

Eastern North Carolina Flue-cured Variety Tour
Raleigh, North Carolina
Loren Fisher, (919) 515-4059

Tobacco and Forage Production Field Day
Research and Education Center at Greeneville
Greeneville, Tennessee
8:00 AM
Robert Ellis, (423) 638-6532

2008 US Tobacco Forum
hosted by NC Tobacco Foundation, Inc.
Embassy Suites Kingston Plantation
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Keith Oakley, (919) 515-9265
Kathy Kennel, (919) 515-9259

North Carolina Flue-cured and Burley Tobacco Tour
Raleigh, North Carolina
Asimina (Mina) Mila, (919) 513-1291

Virginia Tech Tobacco Field Day
Southern Piedmont AREC
Blackstone, Virginia
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Carol Wilkinson, (434) 292-5331

Kentucky All Commodity Field Day
Princeton, Kentucky
Andy Bailey, (270) 365-7541, ext. 240

Kentucky Burley Tobacco Industry Tour
Spindletop Farm
Lexington, Kentucky
Dr. Bob Pierce, (859) 257-5110

Virginia Tech Tobacco Field Day
Tentative Program
Southwest Virginia AREC
Glade Spring, Virginia
5:00 PM
Danny Peek, (276) 944-2201

62nd Tobacco Science Research Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
Hosted by US Smokeless Tobacco Co.

Dark Tobacco Twilight Tour
Murray, Kentucky
Andy Bailey, (270) 365-7541, ext. 240

Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina Regional Tobacco Variety Display
Clemson University, Pee Dee Research and Education Center
Florence, South Carolina
Dewitt Gooden, (843) 662-3526

Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition 
Moultrie, Georgia
Chip Blalock, (292) 985-1968

CORESTA Congress 2008
Shanghai China

South Carolina State Tobacco Meeting
Florence, South Carolina
Dewitt Gooden, (843) 662-3526

NCSU Tobacco Day - 2008
Jane S. McKimmon Education Center, NCSU
8:00 AM
Raleigh, North Carolina
Asimina (Mina) Mila, (919) 513-1291

Flue-cured Variety Evaluation Committee Meeting
Jane S. McKimmon Education Center, NCSU
2:00 PM
Raleigh, North Carolina
David Smith, (919) 515-4057

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