Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 10/5/18


As workers gathered freshly dug sweet potatoes near Lucama, a tractor-trailer loaded with bins struggled to roll through a muddy part of the field Friday. In that patch, the potatoes are now rotting in the field. “We pretty much just pick up and go over that part of the field,” said Rob Glover of Glover Farms, who was overseer in the harvest of some 30 acres of the sweet potatoes on land leased from Bass Farms.

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