The tobacco buyout put an end to government price supports and growing restrictions. Though it may seem as though more tobacco is being planted this year, the reality is fewer farmers are growing more ...

Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, ...

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 ...