Moore's farm -- her husband died in 1999 -- was among the last eight farms in Alabama to grow tobacco, mainly due to the end of a government quota-and-price-support system nearly five years ago.

It's been 20 years since the tobacco quota, which guaranteed prices for the crop, was outlawed. Since then the number of farms growing tobacco in Kentucky has shrunk by 96%. Twenty years ago today ...

"The magnitude of loss in farms is pretty alarming," said Will Snell, who studies tobacco production at the University of Kentucky. The most recent data collected reveals a severe drop in tobacco ...