A collection of tobacco pipes that is said to have once belonged to Albert Einstein has been put up for auction, and bidders have already driven the price to more than $20,000. The historic collection ...

LORIS, S.C. -- Steve Ivey walked briskly past the pungent bundles of yellow tobacco leaves stacked to one side at the Brick Warehouse here, trailed by a few farmers, tobacco buyers and government ...

In North Carolina, tobacco auctions were once festive occasions, where the smell of money competed with the scent of newly dried tobacco leaves. But those days are over. And once-busy auctioneers like ...

After more than four centuries of ubiquity and profits, North Carolina’s tobacco production bottomed out in 2020 to a level not seen in nearly 100 years. Now, the state is down to about 1,300 tobacco ...

LEXINGTON, KY. - Marion Livingood leaned against a bale of tobacco that had just fetched him a record-high price Monday, but he seemed in no mood to celebrate a successful crop. Instead, the ...

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Al Meritt watches closely as a USDA inspector and tobacco company executives comb through his crop. "First letter is stalk position, second letter quality, third is color," the USDA inspector Eve ...

Bobby Williams is one of the first farmers to get his tobacco on the auction floor. With the market opening next week, things are pretty slow. He's also one of the few that still uses the market ...