TOBACCO-producing provinces are set to receive P21 billion as their share from the 2023 excise tax collections on locally-manufactured tobacco and cigarettes. Under Local Budget Memorandum 93, the ...

Sep. 5—Throughout Daviess County, tobacco is in the process of being harvested and hung in barns like it has been for generations. But there is far less of it, and for the first time in anyone's ...

With the local tobacco harvest now in full swing, tobacco growers are stoked about yields and quality. That s especially good news this year because about half the county s tobacco acreage is burley, ...

Farmers who may be eligible for a payout from the dissolution of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association face a deadline this week to become part of the settlement. The cutoff date to ...

I am grateful to Connor Giffin for the recent story in the Courier Journal titled Kentucky losing famers and farmland at a rapid clip – at what cost? It is a sad story. Extremely sad because the story ...

Dec. 22--Federal crop insurance is supposed to be a safety net for farmers, but an ongoing Central Kentucky investigation suggests that a few are defrauding the system to harvest thousands and even ...

Andhra Pradesh farmers face crisis with surplus Black Burley tobacco, lack of alternatives, and plummeting prices.

The Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative, a cornerstone of Kentucky farming for decades, is at a crossroads. A former chairman has proposed dissolving the organization, formed in 1921, and distributing ...

STOUGHTON, Wis. - David Olson peers at a 16-acre plot of tobacco on his southern Wisconsin farm and sees a healthy crop ready for harvest in a few weeks. He also sees an opportunity. Olson, who has ...

The broad, yellow leaves of burley tobacco will lend their distinctive hue to David M. Zimmerman’s fields this summer as he and many other growers look to cash in on the crop for the first time since ...

The Canadian government’s hypocrisy on trade is startling. Less than a month after Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Washington to lecture President Obama about the dangers of “Buy American” laws, ...