DANVILLE, Ky. - Tripp Foy's sing-song chant rang out like a sentimental oldie for die-hard farmers clinging to the old way of selling tobacco ... plans twice-weekly auctions for larger supplies ...

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy’s sing-song chant ... nine months out of the year across the eastern U.S. Now, he auctions tobacco only at a handful of warehouses in Kentucky.

Government workers, too, recognize the auctions decline. Each season, the U.S. Department of Agriculture dispatches four-person teams of graders to size up the tobacco and help establish the ...

CARROLLTON, Ky. – The photo on the wall at the ... If supplies tighten for some tobacco, however, demand at auctions could narrow the price difference, he said. Once warehouse fees are tacked ...

DANVILLE, Ky. -- Tripp Foy's sing-song chant rang ... for nine months out of the year across the eastern U.S. Now, he auctions tobacco at only a handful of warehouses in Kentucky.

Ky., stands among bales of burley tobacco. Since opening in the 1920s, the warehouse, for the first time, will not handle tobacco auctions this year, undone by the growing popularity of ...

MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (AP) — Limited burley tobacco auctions are opening in Kentucky as some farmers cling to the traditional method of selling leaf. The auctioneer’s chant rang out Thursday at ...

The tobacco season for 1862-3 closed on the 31st ult., and we, this morning, lay before our readers a review of the year's business. The sales of the past season amounted to 36,712 hogsheads ...

Auctioneer Walter Wilkerson, echoing a chant perfected during the Civil War, leads the way, calling off the lots in a language that he and the cigarette company buyers appear to u ...