Source: Chris Koger, THE PACKER, 10/20/19


Farm Pak Products Inc., Spring Hope, N.C., is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The company, which markets sweet potatoes for Barnes Farming Corp., was strictly a conventional sweet potato seller when Carson Barnes established it in 1969, pioneering sales of the vegetable on the East Coast. Now the company sells watermelons and organic and value-added sweet potato products, including microwaveable wrapped sweet potatoes, according to a news release.

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