Sweet Potatoes
Previous posts in Fresh Talk have looked at top stories from January through August, this post will consider the top stories published by The Packer in September.
Plant-based diets seemed to be all the rage in 2019, making it a hot topic among industry professionals trying to determine the best ways to market, sell and promote fruits and vegetables to consumers.
Demand for the traditional orange-fleshed sweet potato during holiday dinners may be a constant, but disruption is creeping into this category.
The acquisition of Brooks and Co. and J&J Distributing by the Dragonfly Group should be completed in the fall.
Morning Kiss Organic, Chelsea, Mass., is celebrating Potato Lover’s Month — February — by promoting the vegetable’s nutritional attributes
According to 2020 Fresh Trends data, 26% of customers purchased sweet potatoes within the past 12 months. Read more data and research on sweet potatoes here.
Pandemic or not, sweet potato marketers expect a boost from spring holidays such as Easter.
Sweet potatoes were already doing well lately, and after a crazy 2020, consumers want them even more, according to The Packer’s Fresh Trends 2021 consumer survey.
Episode 48 of Tip of the Iceberg Podcast features an interview with Michelle Grainger, executive director of the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission.
Peebles Organic Farms LLC, Augusta, Ark., has experienced sustained growth for several years and Shawn Peebles expect that growth to continue.
As a sweet potato grower/distributor, Matthews Ridgeview Farms, Wynne, Ark., features a stable supply outlook and good prospects for the 2021 season.
With deep roots in the state, Michelle Grainger was a natural fit for the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission when she hired as executive director in August last year.
Part two of The Packer’s editor Tom Karst and the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission’s Michelle Grainger.
The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission (NCSPC) began celebrating a big milestone as they turned 60 on June 30th.
Although things weren’t all red, white and blue on PMG in the week leading up to the July Fourth holiday, seasonal favorites still stacked the top 20.
Avocados bounced from No. 7 the week of Nov. 30 to take the lead spot on PMG the week of Nov. 7.
The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission (NCSPC) announced today the release of its School Foodservice Video series.
Nash Produce LLC supplies sweet potatoes 52 weeks per year and the Nashville, N.C.-based company is preparing for the start of cucumber packing around mid-June, said Thomas Joyner, president.
North Carolina produce shipments dipped slightly from 2019, U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics reveal.
Pummelo, oranges and strawberries carried the top three spots on PMG for the third week in a row, while lettuce rose three places to No. 4, and apples gained four spots to complete the top 5.
Bland Farms LLC., Battleboro Produce, Boyette Brothers Produce LLC., and Sandyland Produce have announced a new partnership and sales company, Sand Candy Produce LLC.
Sweet potato harvest is gearing up in Southern states, and market conditions were steady in mid-August.
When I think of sweet potatoes, I think of calling my mom back in college, asking for her sweet potato biscuit recipe, which was my nana’s recipe written in her one-room-schoolhouse-neat teacherly cursive script.
The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission (NCSPC) named FullTilt Marketing its domestic agency for marketing and public relations.
Fall is all about the harvest bounty — bubbling hot jonathan apple pies adorned with sugary laced lattice tops, jack-o-lantern pumpkins, ornamental gourds, sweet fall grapes, hard squash and crunchy apples.
Progressive Produce is harvesting California Brussels sprouts and launching Mim’s Specialty Sweet Potatoes this fall.
2021 has brought a year of celebration for the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission as they began celebrating their 60th anniversary milestone.
The Government of South Korea has requested the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of Sweet Potato for consumption into the United States and Territories.
Stokes Purple sweet potatoes are back in season, and it’s the ideal time to showcase these colorful tubers.
The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission (NCSPC) celebrated its long-awaited Eat Sweet Restaurant Week where they invited chefs across the state to “cook” up creative ways to elevate the State’s vegetable.