DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Sounds of tobacco auctions echo in Colquitt County this morning. But, are those sounds going to be a noise of the past? Tobacco farmers have two choices, either auction their crop to several buyers at ...

HUGHESVILLE — Tradition here means the rich, sweet smell of dried tobacco. It means cold, dusty air and bales upon bales of coppery leaves that rustle when handled. It means bantering with old friends ...

In this Nov. 18 photo, auctioneer Tripp Foy, right, hands a tobacco purchase ticket to a buyer at an auction in Danville, Ky. DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tripp Foy’s sing-song chant rang out like a ...

HUGHESVILLE – A couple hundred farmers, buyers and tourists converged on Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Tuesday morning to witness what could be Maryland's last tobacco auction. "Nobody wants to work ...

LORIS, S.C. -- Steve Ivey walked briskly past the pungent bundles of yellow tobacco leaves stacked to one side at the Brick Warehouse here, trailed by a few farmers, tobacco buyers and government ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers who have spent their lives tending the aromatic crop in their fields find comfort in Foy's rat-a-tat style, part of an auction system that's been all but snuffed out by another way of selling ...