![Pictured is a tobacco field in Coffee County that was affected by black shank disease.](https://secure.caes.uga.edu/news/multimedia/images/1785/Black-shank-disease-low-res.jpg)
Black Shank Disease
April showers washed away chemical treatments and provided moisture for infections in 2014, causing Georgia farmers to lose between 4 and 5 percent of the state’s 12,000-plus tobacco acres to black shank disease.