MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s tobacco curing season in the South, and the sheriff’s office in Montgomery County is making sure the region’s newest neighbors know. Tobacco barns across the ...

Just a few decades ago, tobacco provided a secure income for Southern farmers. But when the tobacco buyout came, many Black farmers were cut out of the deal. Some have turned to farming different ...

A friendly reminder to our newest Southern neighbors. It’s tobacco curing season. Which means tobacco barns across the county will be smoking. Yes, you heard correctly, smoking. The barn is not on ...

WILLOW SPRING, N.C. — Thick clouds and heavy humidity hinted at the storm crawling its way toward Carolina Mushroom Farm. But it was a crisp 38 degrees inside one of the farm’s concrete and metal ...

It’s hard for anyone who was not brought up in tobacco country to understand how a dominant crop could define an area’s culture. But this has been true of Calvert County for more than 400 years. From ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For five years, Mickel Giwa has grown tobacco on part of his six-hectare plot in Goromonzi, 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Harare. Curing the leaves with ...

For many farms in Tennessee, tobacco is still the biggest cash crop in the field. It’s been that way for generations. But farmers are looking for alternatives that aren’t quite so difficult to grow, ...

On September 6, 1856, Abisha Slade of Caswell County spoke at an agricultural meeting about “the new process of curing yellow tobacco.” The talk reflected an agricultural breakthrough that had been ...

In the late 1990s, as Sarah Hazlegrove’s family stopped growing tobacco for the first time in 200 years, her immediate reaction was to start photographing the Virginia family farm she knew and loved.