Paul Dunbar picked shade tobacco leaves in a West Suffield, Conn. field yesterday. Many Connecticut River Valley growers bring in foreign workers annually to harvest the delicate top-grade crop.
(Steve Miller for The Boston Globe)
Slow burn for a cash crop
Spiraling costs threaten to extinguish cigar-leaf farms in N.E.'s Tobacco Valley
Paul Dunbar picked shade tobacco leaves in a West Suffield, Conn. field yesterday. Many Connecticut River Valley growers bring in foreign workers annually to harvest the delicate top-grade crop.
(Steve Miller for The Boston Globe)
ENFIELD, Conn. - Under white tents in the Connecticut River Valley grows one of the most expensive agricultural commodities in the world - shade-grown tobacco used to wrap cigars bearing pricey names like Davidoff, Macanudo, and Montecristo. (Full article: 966 words)
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