When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

For more than 70 years, the Fischer family has tended to their land in Daviess County — a farm that has evolved from tobacco fields to a thriving hub of innovation featuring shrimp, tilapia, and ...

INDIAN MOUND, Tenn. (WTVF) — Bobby Darnell isn't sure what he's going to do. Last week, all of his farm equipment stood idle, sans the fertilizer truck getting stuck in the mud. The amount of rain ...

Members of the Conrad family knew they had to start planting something on their former tobacco farm to keep it off developers' radar in St. Mary's County. After years of research and a trip to Italy, ...

Diversification, like tobacco use prevention and cessation, is an important public health concern. The multilevel patterns of tobacco dependency suggest the need for public health approaches to the ...

A long-sought meeting of the minds on tobacco farm worker conditions has been agreed to by advocacy groups and several large tobacco manufacturers, including Reynolds American Inc. The Farm Labor ...

U.S. government aid payments to tobacco farmers will be channeled through a new account within the office of the agriculture secretary, an unusual move that bypasses the normal mechanism for ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Landmark Farm looks like any other well-tended homestead until you get a glimpse of llamas grazing in the field and see the century-old tobacco barn stripped with new wood. A closer ...