The men of the cutting crew are already hard at work harvesting the tall burley tobacco plants that have taken root in the soil over the past few months. The sound of hatchets resonates across the ...

Dark Fire Cured Tobacco is a different plant from the dry-cured Burley tobacco grown outside of the Black Patch Region and used for cigarettes. For the 2024 crop year, the Robertson County ...

26—Two years ago, the number of Daviess County's tobacco ... plant. Knottsville farmer Aaron Walker, however, is trying to keep tobacco as part of his crop portfolio. He grows both burley ...