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.

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 ...

HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them down for transport. The freshly harvested stalks are quickly loaded ...

Hurricane Bertha's timing couldn't have been worse for farmers in the East. Early estimates show $200 million in crop damage. Other WRAL Top Stories But some tobacco farmers may be able to save a ...