The amendment would reverse the exclusion of tobacco farmers from eligibility for financial assistance that USDA is allocated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, the Democrat representing Massachusetts, signed on as co-sponsor of a bill that would prohibit ...

Children as young as seven are legally working on U.S. tobacco farms, and the practice is, not surprisingly, harming their the health. In a 138-page report titled "Tobacco's Hidden Children," ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An international rights group is pushing the federal government and the tobacco industry to take further steps to protect children working on U.S. tobacco farms. A report released ...

HATFIELD — Tobacco prefers dry days. “Tobacco is finicky and susceptible to the weather,” Mark Wendolowski said. Mark and Alicia Wendolowski, owners and operators of Wendolowski Farm in Hatfield, are ...

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

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 ...