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 ...

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 ...

Tobacco used to be king in Vernon County where we live. Dairy farming was the main source of income on most farms, but the tobacco crop helped pay the taxes and, in many cases, paid off the mortgage.

Andrew Ciaglo “spears” the tobacco leaves as part of an assembly line to rival Motor City. “We all grew up together,” said Jeff Sadlowski, 60, the patriarch of the tobacco harvesting operation. Jeff ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stony Creek Colors is convincing farmers who used to grow tobacco to switch to indigo plants and selling the natural blue dye to fabric producers, including denim giant Cone Mills. The Goodlettsville, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s tobacco output recovered to over 45 million kilos last year as farmers were encouraged to produce more due to favorable buying prices driven by growing demand for ...

Looking at the plain, one-story wooden shacks that dot the countryside in Cuba’s vuelta abajo region, one would never guess that the farmers here grow one of the island’s most valuable natural ...