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.

Dermal exposure to pesticides constitutes the major route of pesticide exposure for agricultural workers, with the hands often accounting for most of the dermal exposure (Popendorf et al., 1979; Zwieg ...

FLORENCE What do bananas have to do with helping South Carolina tobacco growers combat a multimillion-dollar problem with bacterial wilt disease? Bacterial wilt, once a minor problem in this state, ...

Don Welk Jr., a fourth-generation farmer in Strasburg, Lancaster County, finished cutting the last of his 20-acre tobacco crop at about 7 p.m. on Labor Day. That did not mean, however, that the work ...

Selvin Beecher has been working at the Jarmoc tobacco fields since 1987. Rain starts to fall but most of the workers stay to harvest the tobacco in Enfield. (Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant) Sammy ...

A look at Cuba's tobacco harvest. In this Feb. 28, 2017 photo, farm hand Jorge Luis Leon Becerra uses a plow powered by oxen over an area where tobacco plants were recently harvested, at the Martinez ...

Allen Mobley remembers his grandmother killing two chickens as payment to their pastor for helping with the family’s tobacco harvest. After working on one farm, the minister and other members of the ...