22nd Century says that being free of a 'restrictive license agreement' with British American Tobacco means that it can pursue more lucrative strategic partnerships.Read More
Tobacco accounted for a third of the value of the organic commodities produced last year in the US state of Virginia.Read More
New minimum tobacco prices that will be in force for the next two sales seasons are too low for growers and too high for buyers. So what’s new?Read More
Poor weather, poor yields and poor purchase prices are pointing tobacco producers in Bosnia-Herzegovina towards the illegal trade.Read More
The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.Read More
Vuse, the top-selling US electronic cigarette, is being targeted by a farmworker labor group unhappy with Reynolds American Inc’s attitude to tobacco-farmworker conditions of employment.Read More
It doesn’t seem to make much sense to hold down leaf prices – perhaps below the cost of production – because cigarette manufacturers are holding too much stock.Read More
Despite the benefits that tobacco growing produces for Zimbabwe – and for tobacco dealers and manufacturers, and governments in other countries – most growers remain poor.Read More
Dissatisfaction with the grading system in the Philippines is apparently causing some tobacco growers to reduce their plantings.Read More
One of two stories published in the Philippines yesterday suggests that growers can earn more by improving leaf quality, while the second suggests that graders might downgrade their leaf.Read More
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