Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 5/19/21


Nash Produce LLC supplies sweet potatoes 52 weeks per year and the Nashville, N.C.-based company is preparing for the start of cucumber packing around mid-June, said Thomas Joyner, president. Growers have been planting cucumbers for spring harvest, and the first cycle of plantings will be ready for harvest about June 10-15, Joyner said. This year’s growing conditions were extraordinarily wet through March, he said. April saw virtually no rain, he said. 

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