In Kentucky, the thunderstorms that started two days before Independence Day and continued into the weekend caused tobacco plants to wilt and collapse about a month before burley harvest shifts ...

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 ...

At the time, burley was still Kentucky's top agricultural ... on genetically engineering ways to make drugs with plants, including tobacco, which has long been the plant equivalent of the white ...

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 ...

They also grow the Burley variety for cigarettes.After the ... Tobacco growers are busy this time of year harvesting and "topping" tobacco plants. That's when they remove the flower to produce ...