Lawrence City Hall is pictured in September 2018. A variety of tobacco issues will soon be before City of Lawrence leaders after being absent for more than a year. The Lawrence City Commission at its ...

Andrew Ciaglo “spears” the tobacco leaves as part of an assembly line to rival Motor City. “We all grew up together,” said Jeff Sadlowski, 60, the patriarch of the tobacco harvesting operation. Jeff ...

Jim Alturo said he often spends nearly 3 hours a day walking the streets around his retirement community in Cinnaminson, near the busy Route 130 corridor in Burlington County. Alturo, 70, said his mid ...

Scandinavian Tobacco (SNDVF) remains a defensive pick, offering a ~9% yield, robust FCF, and a low-beta profile. SNDVF's ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

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 ...

PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia - Thirteen-year-old Siti Maryam says she suffers headaches and nausea after harvesting tobacco leaves with her bare hands during four years of working on her family's farm in ...

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 ...

CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY SCATTERED OVER THE LANDSCAPE, LIKE SO MANY MATCHSTICKS FOR MUCH OF THE YEAR. THESE OLD STRUCTURES GIVE OFF A FORLORN AIR OF ABANDONMENT. RELICS OF SOME DISTANT AGRARIAN PAST.

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.