Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 5/27/22


To put the magnitude of North Carolina’s sweet potato crop in context, picture more than 13,000 refrigerated truckloads lining up to distribute the crop all across the U.S. With big volume every month of the year, North Carolina sweet potato growers boast the biggest share of orange vegetable supply, and it isn’t close. In 2020, North Carolina accounted for about two-thirds of total U.S. sweet potato truck shipments reported by the USDA, followed in importance by Mississippi (16%), California (11%) and Louisiana (6%).

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