The NC SweetPotato Commission was founded in 1961 with the mission of increasing consumer consumption of the North Carolina Sweetpotato. For the last 60 years, it has been doing this through the creation of consumer-targeted promotion and marketing campaigns — both domestically and internationally.

Topashaw Farms has been a leader in growing and distributing sweet potatoes for more than 30 years, but last year saw the company take a new step in growing its own foundation seed.

“You actually start the seed from a seed, not a plant, in a greenhouse, and you take the cuttings from that, put in the field and that’s how you get your foundation plants,” said Joe Edmondson, owner of Topashaw Farms, which is headquartered in Vardaman, MS.

Sweetpotatoes are the bread-and-butter of not only North Carolina, but Nash Produce. 

“We live, breathe and sleep sweetpotatoes as it is the only crop that we distribute year-round,” said Rebecca Scott, grower accounting/marketing director with the Nashville, NC-based company. “That strict focus on the tasty root vegetable allows us to best serve all our customers’ sweetpotato needs.”

With a philosophy geared toward the concept of “Do what you say you are going to do,” Nash Produce, one of the largest sweet potato and cucumber processing facilities in the United States, takes pride in 15 years of providing year-round service.

Matthews Ridgeview Farms is starting the fall harvest and is looking forward to the new crop, a new year and gearing up for the holiday rush.

Vick Family Farms was eager to begin the 2021 sweet potato harvest mid-September as harvest was a few weeks late for North Carolina due to weather challenges during the planting and early growing season.