FLORENCE What do bananas have to do with helping South Carolina tobacco growers combat a multimillion-dollar problem with bacterial wilt disease? Bacterial wilt, once a minor problem in this state, ...

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.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Mar 4, 2017 Mar 4, 2017 0 A look at Cuba's tobacco harvest. In this Feb. 28, 2017 photo, farm hand Jorge Luis Leon Becerra uses a ...

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 ...

Selvin Beecher has been working at the Jarmoc tobacco fields since 1987. Rain starts to fall but most of the workers stay to harvest the tobacco in Enfield. (Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant) Sammy ...

HAVANA, March 23 (Reuters) - Cuba´s Pinar del Rio province, renowned for its luxuriuosly smooth tobacco, is heading towards its worst harvest ever, state run media reported late on Wednesday. The ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

In August 1962, two young boys carried a pole strung with tobacco leaves into a barn to be hung and cured. The accompanying Times-Dispatch article featured a full-page description on "hand labor" and ...

A look at Cuba's tobacco harvest. In this Feb. 28, 2017 photo, farm hand Jorge Luis Leon Becerra uses a plow powered by oxen over an area where tobacco plants were recently harvested, at the Martinez ...