The Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia

2001 Peanut, Cotton and Tobacco Performance Tests
Research Report Number 677
January 2002

TOBACCO
Tifton, Georgia:
Official Flue-Cured Tobacco Variety Test -
Yield, Value, Price Indices, and Quality; Agronomic and
Chemical Characteristics of Released Varieties, 2001
Variety Yield Value Price
Index1		 Grade
Index2		 Number
Leaves/
Plant		 Plant
Ht.		 Days
to
Flower		 Total
Alkaloids		 Reducing
Sugars		 Ratio
(RS/TA)
lb/A $/A $/CWT in % %
RG 17 2708 4814 177 73 18 30 75 2.78 18.5   6.6
NC 297 2545 4510 177 70 17 31 84 2.64 22.1   8.4
RGH51 2439 4336 178 70 17 30 70 2.69 21.1   7.8
Speight 210 2420 4303 178 70 17 30 80 2.70 21.9   8.1
NC 71 2320 4088 176 69 18 31 75 2.37 23.0   9.7
K 394 2307 4165 180 78 17 32 80 2.48 25.2 10.2
GL 939 2286 4053 177 65 19 31 86 2.54 20.6   8.1
Speight H20 2286 4021 176 68 17 33 75 2.97 21.9   7.3
OX 207 2280 4076 179 75 17 31 84 2.74 22.6   8.2
K 358 2275 3952 174 64 17 32 79 2.36 18.7   7.9
NC 72 2146 3704 173 61 19 33 83 1.78 24.5 13.8
Speight 179 2124 3729 174 63 18 30 83 2.43 21.4   8.8
RG 81 2122 3659 173 64 17 29 75 2.25 25.0 11.1
K 346 2116 3710 175 69 17 31 81 2.23 18.4   8.3
Speight 168 2109 3768 179 73 19 32 81 2.68 20.2   7.5
NC 95 2064 3426 165 47 16 34 88 2.80 19.9   7.1
NC 2326 2045 3330 163 45 16 31 73 3.00 17.5   5.8
Speight 190 2037 3625 177 71 18 30 86 2.96 20.6   7.9
NC 810 1945 3498 179 74 18 30 82 2.75 19.4   7.0
K 326 1926 3415 177 74 19 32 79 2.20 20.4   9.3
NC 606 1860 3274 176 70 17 30 80 2.52 21.8   8.7
GL973 1850 3251 176 71 19 33 79 2.80 18.2   6.5
C 371 Gold 1810 3209 177 73 16 32 78 3.40 14.3   4.2
RGH4 1762 2980 169 57 16 30 79 3.26 21.6   6.6
NC 55 1644 2884 175 67 17 30 85 2.95 20.7   7.0
CU 430 1638 2891 175 69 17 33 81 1.91 20.6 10.8
PVH03 1585 2785 176 70 17 29 79 2.07 21.9 10.6
GL 737 1558 2740 176 71 17 32 74 2.94 17.3   5.8
PVH09 1551 2654 171 58 17 30 79 3.16 18.7   5.9
LSD @ 0.05 607.3 1133.4 6.84 13.7            
1.  Price Index based on two-year average (2000-2001) prices for U.S. government grades.
2.  Numerical values ranging from 1-99 for flue-cured tobacco based on equivalent government grades - higher the
     number, higher the grade. 
Some varieties are not included because of poor stand in 1999.
Research conducted by Stevan S. LaHue and M. G. Stephenson, under project S1-71 and supported by grants
from the Georgia Tobacco Commission.
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