Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OXFORD — The Granville Gold Mock Tobacco Event will feature a live reenactment of a tobacco auction on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-5 ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The traditional chants of the tobacco auctioneer will be silent when flue-cured tobacco markets open this week, replaced by the soft clicks of handheld computers. A farmers cooperative ...

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, as a small procession of buyers shadowed him down long ...

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