WASHINGTON — Children working on tobacco farms are exposed to nicotine residue and dangerous pesticides that are making them sick, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday. The group called on President ...

Tobacco used to be king in Vernon County where we live. Dairy farming was the main source of income on most farms, but the tobacco crop helped pay the taxes and, in many cases, paid off the mortgage.

From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most farm boys, ...

NABATIEH: Southern farmers have begun flocking to the fields to secure their primary source of income with the advent of the tobacco harvesting season. The tobacco plant, or the "bitter plant soaked ...

The Claude Moore Colonial Farm, 6310 Georgetown Pike, McLean, will host Colonial Tobacco Harvest – Participatory Event, on Saturday, Aug. 20, 1-4 p.m. Tobacco was a cash crop for the Claude Moore ...

Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather ...

WESTFIELD, N.C. – Inside one of his grandfather’s wooden tobacco barns, Stokes County farmer Thomas Gallant spent a chilly afternoon last fall hanging his tobacco harvest for curing. Muscled and tan ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs and aggressive immigration enforcement have shaken markets and migrant labor.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Tom Lee doesn’t want the Mountain Empire’s tobacco history to go up in smoke. That’s why this associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University has launched a ...

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