Industry experts say the decline of what was once one of Kentucky farms’ top crops coincides with shifts in tobacco consumption habits and to the long tail effect of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco ...
Faylene Whitaker, of Climax, North Carolina, is the first woman to win the Sunbelt Ag Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year.
Lowe learned the trade while working as a laborer on a neighbor’s farm in high school and he grew his first crop of dark-fire tobacco in 2002. At the time, there were a little more than 29,000 ...
In an economy of $319 billion in gross state production, the impact of agriculture was $3.3-$4 billion, which translates into ...
Art Johnson’s farm has been in the family about a century now. What was once a tobacco farm in Kernersville, North Carloina, is now a thriving agritourism business. “My grandfather Ash Johnson ...
Throughout the nineteenth century, countless new varieties of tobacco were selectively crossed and advertised according to ...
As the crowds gathered on the first day of the 46th annual Sunbelt Ag Expo Tuesday, the clear skies turned thoughts to those who experienced the devastation of Hurricane Helene and its impact on their ...
Tobacco farming is labor intensive and workers on small family farms hand-planted the tobacco seeds in the ground, then cutting, hauling and hanging tobacco in the barns to cure. According to an ...
Stanbic IBTC Holdings has announced its sponsorship of the annual British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATN) Lagos Farm Fair. In a statement, the group said the event is dedicated to ...
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