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A good deal of prime farm land in Connecticut has been developed for commercial use. It’s a pressure that all farmers feel. Yet farming is still retaining a foothold in Connecticut, with a new crop of ...

NEWBERRY -- Trevor Bass walked among the rows of tobacco plants — the broad, green leaves up to his chest — and declared a good crop. From amid the 210 acres planted in tobacco this year, the plants ...

The southern United States is a vast expanse of fields and undeveloped land, much of of which has been used for growing tobacco for hundreds of years. Tobacco is a terrific cash crop, and tobacco ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY -- As the hot, steamy days of summer pass, hardy rows of green tobacco ripen, turning bright yellow leaf by leaf. As the leaves begin to yellow, farmers prepare to harvest their crop.

Michigan Tech researchers contend that tobacco farmers could increase profits by converting their land to solar farms, which in turn provides renewable energy generation. Although tobacco use is the ...

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 ...

Tobacco farming is a good experience for kids, according to Kentucky state senator and tobacco farmer Paul Hornback (R). “Children need to experience things,” he told The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee in ...

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 ...

Sam Robi sprinkles feed on a pond and after a while, a school of fish scramble for it. He repeats the same procedure in four out of eight fishponds at his farm in Kuria West District. Besides the ...

In the U.S., children under the age of 18 are legally barred from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products. But they are allowed to harvest tobacco on farms. Despite a worldwide decline in ...