It was America's first export, but now the tobacco fields are disappearing, buried by lawsuits, a drop-off in smoking and competition from imports. Farmers are planting the smallest crop since Ulysses ...

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 ...

It doesn’t have teeth, venom, or claws, yet this common agricultural crop claims more lives than any predator on Earth.

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 ...

Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather ...

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Melvin Daniels' family has farmed tobacco in Claiborne County since the Revolutionary War, but the family business is now in danger. "That plant is gone," said Daniels, pointing to a dead tobacco ...

For as far as the eye can see, yellow tobacco sags in fields that stretch across the state’s coastal plains. Hurricane Florence, which hit a week ago, flooded as much as 125 million pounds of the crop ...

HARARE – Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, opened its tobacco-selling season Wednesday, with a speech by the vice president and eager international buyers. The size of the tobacco crop ...

HARARE, ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, opened its tobacco-selling season Wednesday, with a speech by the vice president and eager international buyers. The ...