MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s tobacco curing season in the South, and the sheriff’s office in Montgomery County is making sure the region’s newest neighbors know. Tobacco barns across the ...

Around this time of year, first responders have been used to receiving an influx of calls for tobacco barn fires. As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of ...

WESTFIELD, N.C. – Inside one of his grandfather’s wooden tobacco barns, Stokes County farmer Thomas Gallant spent a chilly afternoon last fall hanging his tobacco harvest for curing. Muscled and tan ...

Rajahmundry: In a significant step towards sustainable agriculture, the ICAR-National Institute for Research on Commercial Agriculture (NIRCA) has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative ...

THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has launched a nationwide fire prevention campaign to protect fast-growing tree woodlots used in tobacco curing as Zimbabwe enters the 2025 fire season.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — It happens every year, around this time. Drivers see smoke billowing out of a barn and call 911. But what some call an emergency, a Middle Tennessee farmer calls a ...

THE tobacco industry has raked in $433 million from the sale of 135 million kg of the golden leaf, but the sector is facing curing facilities challenges, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB ...