Stifel Financial Corp. is launching and leading the sale of a $675 million private credit financing package for Tobacco Rag Processors Inc., which supplies tobacco products to manufacturers, according ...

Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun's energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the ...

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. A member of the Solanaceae family, it can contain up to nine times more nicotine than common ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. ENFIELD, Conn. — With the single swing of their hatchets, the Jamaican ...

HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them down for transport. The freshly harvested stalks are quickly loaded ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...

SUFFIELD, Conn. (WFSB) - A late-night storm toppled thousands of tobacco plants at Kent Farms, forcing crews to right each one by hand just weeks before harvest. Owner James Kent, a fifth-generation ...

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally might be contributing to air pollution in an unexpected way. While they may ...