The work is among the economic feasibility projects being performed by Dr. Darrell S. Mundy at the research facility.
Local laborers are less and less interested in working the seasonal hours.
Float technology is allowing farmers who both use and sell transplants to market two commodities. It's no wonder that TN 90 is the most widely grown burley tobacco in the world. For generations thousands of farm families have depended on the crop for their economic well being. Even now, despite social pressures regarding the health effects of tobacco products, UT Agricultural Experiment Station economist Dr. Darrell Mundy says that in Tennessee tobacco surpasses all enterprises except beef cattle and hay in terms of the number of farms producing the commodity. They're an important reason why the Institute of Agriculture is in business.