Tobacco farming fades, but it’s not extinguished

 

(pressherald.com) Some of Jay Smithback’s earliest memories are of driving a tractor, when he was 4 years old, and working in his family’s tobacco field.
Now 29, Smithback is a fourth-generation tobacco farmer near Deerfield, in Dane County, Wisconsin. Overall production of the crop in Wisconsin has dwindled to the point where it’s barely a blip in the state’s $59 billion agricultural industry, but it remains profitable for Smithback and about 200 other farmers. Continued