Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 5/14/21


With deep roots in the state, a lifetime of exposure to agriculture and several years of direct professional experience with the state’s growers, Michelle Grainger was a natural fit for the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission when she hired as executive director in August last year. Grainger most recently had served as managing director of the highly popular North Carolina State University Executive Farm Management Program. She also delivered a TEDx talk at the TedxCaryWomen event in December 2019, where she shared her conviction of the importance of agriculture and farmers to national security.

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