Source: Chris Crawford, THE PACKER, 8/22/16

Sweet potato growers say the 2016-17 season looks to be good as growing conditions have been more conducive to quality crops than last year. Mississippi grower-shippers began transplanting in mid-May this year, the earliest they have been able to do so in recent years due to past trouble with wet fields at that time, said Stephen Meyers, sweet potato extension specialist with Mississippi State University, and non-voting board member, Mississippi Sweet Potato Council, Vardaman.

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