Meeker County’s connection to agriculture is well-established – with dairy farms sprinkled throughout the countryside, First District Association’s enormous processing facility planted in Litchfield, ...

Children as young as seven are legally working on U.S. tobacco farms, and the practice is, not surprisingly, harming their the health. In a 138-page report titled "Tobacco's Hidden Children," ...

Leading the charge is Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who plans to urge tobacco companies to stop from using child labor in their supply chains.

In the U.S., children under the age of 18 are legally barred from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products. But they are allowed to harvest tobacco on farms. Despite a worldwide decline in ...

Michigan Tech researchers contend that tobacco farmers could increase profits by converting their land to solar farms, which in turn provides renewable energy generation. Although tobacco use is the ...

The southern United States is a vast expanse of fields and undeveloped land, much of of which has been used for growing tobacco for hundreds of years. Tobacco is a terrific cash crop, and tobacco ...

PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia - Thirteen-year-old Siti Maryam says she suffers headaches and nausea after harvesting tobacco leaves with her bare hands during four years of working on her family's farm in ...

On a hot summer day last year, a 17-year-old migrant worker named Ivan Alavez was assigned to pull trays of tobacco seedlings from a makeshift shearing machine welded from an old lawnmower blade. But ...

Another farmer, Harlan Ray Highfield, 63, of Brooksville, was sentenced earlier in December for another crop insurance fraud ...

Thousands of children as young as eight are working in hazardous conditions on tobacco farms in Indonesia, putting them at risk of cancer, respiratory problems and nicotine poisoning, according to a ...