Source: MID-AMERICA FARMER GROWER



  When brothers Wyatt and Frank Scott returned home to their Lucama, North Carolina family farm after earning degrees from NC State University in 2016, they planted 18 acres of sweet potatoes. This year, 200 acres of the root vegetable will be hand harvested off of 46” beds and they have plans to build infrastructure to expand even further. It has become the farm’s number two cash crop behind tobacco. The family, which includes their father, Joey, their uncle, Gary, and their mother, Tricia, also produces 700 acres of cotton, a little wheat, 700 hundred acres of two varieties of soybeans (an early group 6 and a group 7 they contract for seed), and corn if the market for it is good.

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