KEARNEY, Mo. -- Visitors will not find many agricultural tools in David Pichel's tobacco barn. For the late summer tobacco harvest, all field hands need are tomahawks, spikes and wooden sticks. Unless ...
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 ...
THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has urged tobacco farmers to harvest only mature leaves and strictly adhere to recommended handling and curing procedures to minimise losses, as ...
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. -- Each spring, the agriculture students at the public high school here lay out long, straight rows of baby burley tobacco plants that crest a little ridge outside this Bluegrass ...