In North Carolina, tobacco auctions were once festive occasions, where the smell of money competed with the scent of newly dried tobacco leaves. But those days are over. And once-busy auctioneers like ...

OXFORD — The Granville Gold Mock Tobacco Event will feature a live reenactment of a tobacco auction on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-5 p.m. at Carlee Farms. History and agricultural buffs will not want to ...

U.S. Senate candidates Lauch Faircloth and John Edwards were out fetching votes at the opening of the Eastern Belt Tobacco Market Wednesday, where auctioners officially began calling out the first ...