Tour 10: 
World's Largest Sweetpotato Operation
and Cucumbers

Nash Produce is one of the largest cucumber processing facilities in the US. The operation includes cooling, packing and storage that covers 85 acres. Crop production includes 35,000 acres over a nine county area.  Our second stop will be Farm Pak/Barnes Farming, a family owned operation that is the world’s largest sweetpotato grower, packer, and shipper.  In addition to 5,000 acres of sweetpotatoes, Barnes Farming also grows 14,000 acres of other crops such as squash, peanuts, and tobacco.  Farm Pak accommodates 1 million bushels of sweetpotatoes for year round shipments.  After lunch at the Wilson County Agricultural Center, we will visit Vick Family Farms, where they grow tobacco, sweetpotatoes, soybeans and cotton on over 4500 acres.  A daughter involved with the farming operation was just recognized as the Jaycee’s National Outstanding Young Farmer of the year.  Long travel.

Nash Produce

 

Farm Pak/Barnes Farming

 

Vick Family Farms

 

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