North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission

公司描述

The North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission is a non-profit corporation made up of over 300 sweetpotato growers along with the packers, processors and business associates that support them.

The sole purpose of the Commission is to increase sweetpotato consumption through education, promotional activities, research and honorable horticultural practices among its producers.

Thanks to the six sweetpotato farmers that chartered the Commission in 1961, the Commission has supported its growers and maintained North Carolina as the No. 1 sweetpotato-producing state in the United States since 1971.

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该公司新闻

An aerial view of a tobacco field in North Carolina after hurricane Florence. Any sweet potatoes that have been submerged for days will not be harvested.

九月 23, 2018

Fate North Carolina Sweet Potato Crop after Hurricane Florence still uncertain

The problem for North Carolina’s sweet potato farmers is knowing whether the drenching rains unleashed by hurricane Florence will have the same effect as being inundated by a flooded pond or creek. Some sweet potato fields received as much as 30 inches.

Hurricane Florence - here seen from the International Space Station - is heading for landfall in North Carolina, where 55 percent of the US sweet potatoes are grown (acreage) this year. (Courtesy: Alexander Gerst, Commander of ISS Exp 57 / Twitter)

九月 13, 2018

North Carolina Sweet Potato Growers scramble to harvest their crop before hurricane Florence hits

Hurricane Florence, is making landfall in North Carolina, where 55 percent of the US sweet potatoes are grown (acreage) this year.

Kelly McIver was named the Executive Director of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission (NCSPC)

八月 27, 2015

North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission appoints Kelly McIver as Executive Director

Kelly McIver was named the Executive Director of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission (NCSPC) on August 17, following the retirement announcement earlier this year by longtime director Sue Johnson-Langdon.

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