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

For U.S. produce growers, the bark of Hurricane Dorian was worse than its bite.

Global sweet potato promotion is growing southern U.S. sweet potato exports.

Onion growers and shippers in the Idaho-Eastern Oregon District, like colleagues elsewhere, say they are finding practical use for multiple options in packaging that didn’t exist in years past.

Mike Krage is the Idaho Potato Commission’s newest retail promotions director, covering the Northeast and Midwest.

Sweet potato grower-shipper Wayne Bailey Produce, Chadbourn, N.C., is closing after 85 years, and its customers will now be served by Jackson Farming Co.

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

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.

Sweet potato grower-shipper Southern Produce Distributors, like many North Carolina growers, faced adversity this year with Hurricane Florence’s rains.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Google searches related to Brussels sprouts show strong interest around the holidays, inquiries about the nutritional benefits of the vegetable and curiosity about how to use them in recipes.

The balance of Louisiana sweet potatoes going to fresh versus processed could be changing.

Spring is an active marketing season for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and department officials say there are more items than ever to promote.

Sweet potatoes continue to find an eager audience in foreign markets.

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.