On top of slumping sales, heavy rains and disease leave New England tobacco farmers reeling

SOUTHWICK, Mass. — They’re among the lucky few, John, Fred and Dave Arnold. There’s a good supply of crisp broadleaf tobacco drying in their 14 curing sheds and over the next couple of weeks they’ll be pulling it down, bundling it up and selling it for the best price they can get. Pretty much what their family has done every year since the 1830s in the Connecticut River Valley.

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