Source: Fred Wilkinson, SOUTHEAST PRODUCE WEEKLY, 6/8/21

North Carolina’s fresh potato harvest is poised to ramp up beginning around June 18, and growers say they expect a good crop. The season was “on the edge of dry,” but the crop responded well to timely rain, said Reuben James, owner of potato grower-shipper James Bros. Inc., a multigenerational family farm in Pasquotank County, N.C. James Bros. grows yellow, white and red potatoes on 300 acres...

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