Potato News from Mississippi

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October 11, 2014

Calbee North America sets up new snack manufacturing plant in Mississippi

Snack food manufacturer Calbee North America announces the company has located operations in the former BMW distribution facility in Senatobia, Mississippi. The project represents a corporate investment of $51.1 million and will create 254 jobs over the next five years.

Field experiments and analyses showed that early planting and delaying harvesting practices can result in increased yields and profits for sweet potato producers

May 04, 2014

Research: Optimizing Sweet Potato production

Researchers from Mississippi State and Louisiana State Universities assessed the importance of planting and harvest dates and plant spacing for the sweet potato cultivars Beauregard and Evangeline.