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 ...

In the North Carolina heat and humidity, he and his fellow H-2A workers pulled large leaves off tobacco plants as tall as he was and deposited them in a truck bed. The workers risked absorbing the ...

HADLEY — Nick Uchneat has spent the summers farming tobacco since he was 9 years old. He initially started by tagging along with his close friend, whose father Paul Jekanowski owns Jekanowski Farm, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Selvin Beecher has been working at the Jarmoc tobacco fields since 1987. Rain starts to fall but most of the workers stay to harvest the tobacco in Enfield. (Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant) Sammy ...

It s harvest time in much of the nation s tobacco patches and this year s harvest is expected to be among the smallest in at least a decade. Farmers are expected to produce 726 million pounds of ...