Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ...
Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, ...
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. -- Each spring, the agriculture students at the public high school here lay out long, straight rows of baby burley tobacco plants that crest a little ridge outside this Bluegrass ...
Zimbabwe is the Largest Producer of Tobacco in Africa, and the country is aiming to turn tobacco farming into a $5 billion industry by 2025. However, the sector has had a devastating impact on the ...
When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden -- the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ...
Tobacco farmers are on edge as cigarette companies decide how much tobacco they plan to buy next season. Farmers are particularly interested in what the companies will do in light of the recent ...
On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...
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