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The National Restaurant Association reports that vegetables remain trendy, particularly for their capacity to replace other food items.

Short of going the H-2A route, labor remains a problem in the onion industry.

North Carolina sweet potato grower Stewart Precythe was posthumously honored by the U.S. Sweet Potato Council for his contributions to the industry.

Growers Jerome and Diane Vick were recently honored by the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission for their contributions to the state’s industry.

Sweet potatoes are a booming business in the U.S. Thus far, few people in the industry seem concerned about a bust in the cycle, despite the fact that production increased from 1.3 billion pounds in 2000 to 3.1 billion i

Two hurricanes and heavy rain elsewhere in the southeastern U.S. at the critical sweet potato harvesting time means volume from the 2018 crop isn’t as high as other years.

The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries.

Faison, N.C.-based Southern Produce Distributors Inc. paired up with Asheville, N.C.-based The Hop Ice Cream Cafe to make Carolina Covington Cheesecake ice cream, and Southern Exposure attendees can get a taste March 3.

Chile’s stone fruit exports to the U.S. won’t have any big surprises for the 2018-19 season, most observers think.

Health benefits are becoming a major selling point of North Carolina Sweet potatoes.

Marketers say it’s important for retailers to promote product at retail as “Fresh from Chile” as millennials are driving sales and they are conscious of where their food comes from.

August Battaglia, doing business as QMP Sales, has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

Sweet potato company Southern Produce Distributors has hired Heath Johnsey as operations manager.

Hurricane Florence caused more than $1.1 billion in damage to crops and livestock in North Carolina, according to a new state estimate. Of that, about $27 million is damage to vegetables and horticultural crop losses.

Penick Produce Co. Inc., a sweet potato company in Vardaman, Miss., has posted a $75,000 cash surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission is planning to launch a branding program for sweet potatoes grown in North Carolina.

Wayne E. Bailey Produce Co. expects to emerge from bankruptcy the first week of September, after filing for Chapter 11 in January.

As U.S. sweet potato exports increase, The American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute is using special events, promotional activities and social media to tout the benefits of sweet potatoes worldwide.

There is no use trying to pin down the precise amount of damage caused to the North Carolina sweet potato crop by Hurricane Florence and the remnants of tropical storm Michael.