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Resolved: The U.S. Should Stop Growing Tobacco

Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ago and therefore relatively new. He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns.Scott, in his early fifties, is from Lucama, North ....

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AMEXCAN hosts agricultural conference in Greenville

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — More than 50 people gathered at the Pitt County Agricultural Center on Friday, all looking to help those working in our agricultural sector. It’s part of AMEXCAN’s Harvesting Solutions Agricultural Conference. Representatives from AMEXCAN, the North Carolina Growers Association, the Hispanic Federation, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the State Department […] ....

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Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system - Carolina Public Press

José Arturo González Mendoza’s death highlights wider issues in the H-2A visa program for seasonal farmworkers in NC. ....

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Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system

Eleazar was 24 in 2014, when he began working seasonally with a H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers at a tobacco farm in Benson, North Carolina. ....

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House Ag Committee tries to tackle worsening labor challenges

From row crop operations to dairies, finding good workers is a problem facing thousands of farmers across the country. ....

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