Mississippi Business Journal » yam http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Sweet potato crop looking ‘slightly above average’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/02/sweet-potato-crop-looking-slightly-above-average/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sweet-potato-crop-looking-slightly-above-average http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/02/sweet-potato-crop-looking-slightly-above-average/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:06:26 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=63402 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s soil and climate are ideally suited to producing sweet potatoes, a crop that gives the state a No. 2 national ranking. Harvest began about Aug. 20 on Mississippi’s 22,500 acres of sweet potatoes. North Carolina comes in first with 64,000 acres. Acreage in both states varied little from last year. The [...]

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