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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...