From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most ...

The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

Meeker County’s connection to agriculture is well-established – with dairy farms sprinkled throughout the countryside, First District Association’s enormous processing facility ...

Plants also provide considerable flexibility that allows customized protein production. Tobacco species like Nicotiana ...

The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine "factories". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow.