From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most ...

Now he’s 28 years old with a wife ... It just takes a lot of time away from my family.” The big difference in farming tobacco is that there’s little or no government support to grow it ...

Tobacco farming is labor intensive and workers on small ... growing tobacco under contracts with pre-determined prices. The ...