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 ...

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 ...

Sep. 5—Throughout Daviess County, tobacco is in the process of being harvested and hung in barns like it has been for generations. But there is far less of it, and for the first time in anyone's ...

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 ...

KENTUCKY has been having an experience unique, costly, tragic, and probably to some extent valuable, with the farmers engaged in the chief agricultural industry of the state — growing tobacco. Some 80 ...

David Cox's callused palms and stubby fingers have turned black. The air is cold, and the floor of the cinder-block-walled room is covered with flakes of tobacco leaves that crunch when he walks about ...

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 ...