When Rachel Herrick bought a 47-acre farm in Cameron, NC, she had her work cut out for her. The soil was stripped of nutrients, dry after decades of tobacco farming. But Herrick was undeterred.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing ...

Tobacco farming — once central to the South's economy and culture — has all but vanished from the region. The end of government support for the crop in 2005, coupled with a sharp decrease in smoking ...

Africa’s top tobacco grower is poised to take its place as one of the leading tobacco-growing nations in the world. However, farmers who work on contract farming schemes dominated by Chinese companies ...

Johnston County’s Tobacco Farm Life Museum officially reopened to the public Saturday morning, welcoming dozens of guests in to learn of how things once were in eastern North Carolina. Saturday's ...

Last year alone, tobacco earned $1.2bn, but statistics show that tobacco farmers are responsible for ravaging 60,000 hectares of forests each year, around 20% of the country’s total forest loss of 262 ...