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 ...

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 ...

If you drove up Ohio 7 toward Gallipolis, or along almost any back road in Gallia or Lawrence counties, you would see patches, large or small, of burley tobacco, one of three varieties used in ...

It is important to make a distinction between The Burley Tobacco Program and the tobacco ... Then, the invasive plants. How can Cherokee Park bloom again? It is a shame to have to quote old ...

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 ...