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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tobacco auctioneers inspect the tobacco crop before an auction in Harare, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Zimbabwe’s tobacco is flourishing again. And so are the auctions where merchants are fetching premium ...

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 ...

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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