The workers, who are often employed through H-2A visas, say they’ve experienced dehydration, headaches, and vomiting from harvesting tobacco in North Carolina.
John Hart
From left, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, Graham Boyd, executive vice-president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina (TGANC); and Jonathan Renn, a Franklin County tobacco farmer and incoming TGANC president, check out an early 1900s Oliver grain drill that Troxler restored. The three are shown at the commissioner’s Browns Summit, N.C. farm. The 2020 crop was the smallest tobacco acreage planted in North Carolina in 150 years.
North Carolina tobacco is coming off one of the most challenging years it as ever seen, but there is hope on the horizon.
That’s one point both North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and Graham Boyd, executive vice-president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, drove home in an interview with