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 ...
HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them down for transport. The freshly harvested stalks are quickly loaded ...
Tobacco farmers in Georgia are reporting significant damage from the storm known as Debby that drenched the Southeast this week. While the worst of the storm predictions did not come to pass, tobacco ...
Tobacco season is coming to a close and farmers are racing to harvest what they can salvage from their fields. Jimmie Sidberry, Willie Saunders, Edward Spencer, and Georgia Williams, alumni of the ...
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 ...
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TIMB in quality push as tobacco harvest kicks off
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 ...
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