{"id":3008,"date":"2019-08-27T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2019-08-27T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:46:34","slug":"connecticut-tobacco-crop-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Tobacco Crop Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article_date\">Posted on August 27, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"See more from Andrew Nagy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/andrew-nagy\">Andrew Nagy<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article_info list-inline\"><\/ul>\n<p>After a disappointing 2018 season plagued by heavy, consistent rains, cigar tobacco farmers in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/connecticut-river-valley\">Connecticut River Valley<\/a>\u00a0are optimistic that this year\u2019s crop will yield some of the best leaf in years.<\/p>\n<p>Recently,\u00a0<em>Cigar Aficionado<\/em>\u00a0had the opportunity to visit the three growers who make up the Windsor Shade Tobacco Co., a cooperative that stores and treats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/connecticut-shade\">Connecticut Shade<\/a>\u00a0tobacco for shipment to cigar manufacturers. In addition to being the few remaining growers of the Connecticut Shade tobacco varietal\u2014which once covered much of the valley\u2014each of the farmers also grow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/connecticut-broadleaf\">Broadleaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/articles\/secrets-of-connecticut-shade-16347\">Connecticut Shade is grown under elaborate tents<\/a>\u00a0of screen-like netting made of cheesecloth that filters the sun, making for thinner, finer leaves. When fully cured, the wrapper leaves are light in color, and are found on milder cigars. The shade netting not only offers some protection from insects, but also forces the tobacco plant to reach for the sun and grow tall. During our visit, the Shade plants were growing to about 9 feet tall and poking the top of the cheesecloth tents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/connecticut-tobacco-crop-report\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on August 27, 2019 By\u00a0Andrew Nagy After a disappointing 2018 season plagued by heavy, consistent rains, cigar tobacco farmers in the\u00a0Connecticut River Valley\u00a0are optimistic that this year\u2019s crop will yield some of the best leaf in years. Recently,\u00a0Cigar Aficionado\u00a0had the opportunity to visit the three growers who make up the Windsor Shade Tobacco Co.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}