MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s tobacco curing season in the South, and the sheriff’s office in Montgomery County is making sure the region’s newest neighbors know. Tobacco barns across the ...

On September 6, 1856, Abisha Slade of Caswell County spoke at an agricultural meeting about “the new process of curing yellow tobacco.” The talk reflected an agricultural breakthrough that had been ...

Around this time of year, first responders have been used to receiving an influx of calls for tobacco barn fires. As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of ...

SWABI: Four furnaces (bathas) of Virginia tobacco situated in different villages caught fire, reducing leaves, which were under curing process, to ashes, and inflicting huge financial losses over ...

WESTFIELD, N.C. – Inside one of his grandfather’s wooden tobacco barns, Stokes County farmer Thomas Gallant spent a chilly afternoon last fall hanging his tobacco harvest for curing. Muscled and tan ...

It’s hard for anyone who was not brought up in tobacco country to understand how a dominant crop could define an area’s culture. But this has been true of Calvert County for more than 400 years. From ...

A friendly reminder to our newest Southern neighbors. It’s tobacco curing season. Which means tobacco barns across the county will be smoking. Yes, you heard correctly, smoking. The barn is not on ...

Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ...

RESEARCH institution Kutsaga has urged tobacco farmers to adopt several practices such as selecting the right variety that can withstand long periods of drought in order to enhance the quality of ...