“We have a consistent supply of sweet potatoes”
“It’s a difficult time to be in the sweet potato business and farming in general, due to high input costs,” says Jacy Barnes Clapp with North Carolina-based Farm Pak. “High input costs, particularly related to labor, have resulted in a few farmers to either stop growing sweet potatoes this past year or get out of farming completely,” she shared. Consequently, acreage is down by
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