Source: SOUTHEAST PRODUCE WEEKLY, 9/12/19

With fall around the corner, it’s time to start thinking sweet potatoes — and North Carolina grows 60 percent of the nation’s crop. Sweet potatoes have been very sweet for North Carolina. Former tobacco farmers have made the crop the nation’s largest by far. The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission represents more than 400 growers along with packers, processors and associated industries — we caught up with that organization’s…

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