I am grateful to Connor Giffin for the recent story in the Courier Journal titled Kentucky losing famers and farmland at a rapid clip – at what cost? It is a sad story. Extremely sad because the story ...

STOUGHTON, Wis. - David Olson peers at a 16-acre plot of tobacco on his southern Wisconsin farm and sees a healthy crop ready for harvest in a few weeks. He also sees an opportunity. Olson, who has ...

Dec. 22--Federal crop insurance is supposed to be a safety net for farmers, but an ongoing Central Kentucky investigation suggests that a few are defrauding the system to harvest thousands and even ...

EAST EARL, Pa. -- The broad, yellow leaves of burley tobacco will lend their distinctive hue to David M. Zimmerman's fields this summer as he and many other growers look to cash in on the crop for the ...

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Rusty Thompson, a fifth-generation tobacco grower from Versailles, Ky., about the tobacco buyout included in the corporate tax bill. Thompson is still not sure whether ...

Tobacco is making a comeback, said Jeff Stoltzfus, a local authority on the crop. Farmers see the potential to make money at it again. That s the best news in years to anyone who wants to see small ...

Leaf buyers, users and farmers have agreed to raise the floor prices of all types and grades of tobacco by P1 per kilo, ...

The Canadian government’s hypocrisy on trade is startling. Less than a month after Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Washington to lecture President Obama about the dangers of “Buy American” laws, ...

In total, 58.5% of the participants wanted to stop growing tobacco, and most had a lower quality of life than the mean. Nine independent variables were associated with a desire to stop tobacco farming ...