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 ...

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 ...

DARLINGTON — Flue-cured tobacco. The smell is intoxicating, resiny and rich. Pulled from the curing barn, the sap still clings to the nutty brown leaves that have been carefully tended since the ...

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.

From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most farm boys, ...

Dermal exposure to pesticides constitutes the major route of pesticide exposure for agricultural workers, with the hands often accounting for most of the dermal exposure (Popendorf et al., 1979; Zwieg ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Tobacco growing is causing "massive harm" to the environment through the extensive use of chemicals, energy and water, and pollution from manufacturing and distribution, the World ...

Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather ...

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 ...