Last month, I posted about the potential for greater and more unusual insect activity in tobacco greenhouses due to our warm winter and relatively mild spring....More
Final 2011 burley tobacco production by Kentucky farmers totaled 128 million pounds, down 9 percent from the 140.4 million pounds produced in 2010....More
Billy Carter got into organic tobacco production in a serendipitous way that fit into conventional production of crops, and now the two concepts work well in tandem....More
The cost of energy and labor are two of the biggest concerns for tobacco growers in 2012, says Brent Leggett of Nashville, N.C., the new president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina (TGANC)....More
Kentucky burley farmers entered 2011 with many of the same adverse market conditions they experienced in recent years — declining domestic cigarette sales, excess world burley supplies, slumping exports, and regulatory uncertainty on both the domestic and international front....More
Smaller-scale burley tobacco growers in southwest Virginia will have to consider their next move in light of the closing of a Philip Morris USA receiving station....More
Small-scale tobacco farmers in eastern Kentucky who are looking for alternatives due to changes in the tobacco market are discovering that a relatively easy, often profitable transition lies in sweet potatoes....More
