Tobacco farming — once central to the South's economy and culture — has all but vanished from the region. The end of government support for the crop in 2005, coupled with a sharp decrease in smoking ...

HATFIELD — Tobacco prefers dry days. “Tobacco is finicky and susceptible to the weather,” Mark Wendolowski said. Mark and Alicia Wendolowski, owners and operators of Wendolowski Farm in Hatfield, are ...

It's been 20 years since the tobacco quota, which guaranteed prices for the crop, was outlawed. Since then the number of farms growing tobacco in Kentucky has shrunk by 96%. Twenty years ago today, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Once the proud cash crop of the state, Tobacco is a shrinking business in the Commonwealth. Tobacco, the leading crop, even as recent as 2003, doesn’t even crack the top ten today.

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

With skilled hands and four decades of experience, Aristo Torres mixes tobacco leaves in a cigar factory in northern Nicaragua, most of which are exported to the United States. To make the cigar “we ...