From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most farm boys, ...

FLORENCE What do bananas have to do with helping South Carolina tobacco growers combat a multimillion-dollar problem with bacterial wilt disease? Bacterial wilt, once a minor problem in this state, ...

Don Welk Jr., a fourth-generation farmer in Strasburg, Lancaster County, finished cutting the last of his 20-acre tobacco crop at about 7 p.m. on Labor Day. That did not mean, however, that the work ...

Tobacco used to be king in Vernon County where we live. Dairy farming was the main source of income on most farms, but the tobacco crop helped pay the taxes and, in many cases, paid off the mortgage.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Mar 4, 2017 Mar 4, 2017 0 A look at Cuba's tobacco harvest. In this Feb. 28, 2017 photo, farm hand Jorge Luis Leon Becerra uses a ...