DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy’s sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco, as a small procession of buyers shadowed him down ...

HUGHESVILLE — Tradition here means the rich, sweet smell of dried tobacco. It means cold, dusty air and bales upon bales of coppery leaves that rustle when handled. It means bantering with old friends ...

Sounds of tobacco auctions echo in Colquitt County this morning. But, are those sounds going to be a noise of the past? Tobacco farmers have two choices, either auction their crop to several buyers at ...

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy’s sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco, as a small procession of buyers shadowed him down ...

DANVILLE, Ky. -- Tripp Foy's sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco, as a small procession of buyers shadowed him down long ...

This warehouse, Independent No. 2, sits empty and run down, another symbol of the auction system’s decline as farmers increasingly sell leaf directly to tobacco companies.But the 60,000-square-foot ...

CARROLLTON, Ky. – The photo on the wall at the Growers Tobacco Warehouse shows smiling workers gathered around tobacco bales three years ago, when 13.8 million pounds of tobacco were sold, the best ...

HUGHESVILLE – A couple hundred farmers, buyers and tourists converged on Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Tuesday morning to witness what could be Maryland's last tobacco auction. "Nobody wants to work ...

Farmers who have spent their lives tending the aromatic crop in their fields find comfort in Foy's rat-a-tat style, part of an auction system that's been all but snuffed out by another way of selling ...