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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRING VALLEY, Ill. -- Flowers of all shapes and sizes surrounded Larry Smith's house in Spring Valley this past summer, but what usually caught people's eyes was the 5-foot-tall tobacco plant.

After spending 1,500 pounds of tobacco and waiting six months for him to arrive, Godiah Spray was relieved to finally meet his new indentured servant. The servant, a short fourth-grader from Laurel, ...