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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing ...
Most people will say, 'I don't want to invest in tobacco, the industry is dying'. However, this is not the case. In reality, the tobacco industry is still as strong as it ever was, even if there are a ...
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 ...
The tobacco buyout put an end to government price supports and growing restrictions. Though it may seem as though more tobacco is being planted this year, the reality is fewer farmers are growing more ...
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 ...