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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tobacco auctioneers inspect the tobacco crop before an auction in Harare, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Zimbabwe’s tobacco is flourishing again. And so are the auctions where merchants are fetching premium ...

Tobacco traders in Karnataka will boycott auctions from January 24 due to new high taxes on unmanufactured tobacco.

OXFORD — The Granville Gold Mock Tobacco Event will feature a live reenactment of a tobacco auction on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-5 p.m. at Carlee Farms. History and agricultural buffs will not want to ...

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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 ...

Scenes of Border Belt and Eastern Carolina Market on Opening Day of Tobacco Auctions. August 1942. News & Observer file photo After more than four centuries of ubiquity and profits, North Carolina’s ...