Stories About Us Micropropagation brings sweet results to NC growers NC State Perspectives - Spring 2000 - Art Latham With farmers in dire need of something to generate bank deposits after tobacco’s lean years and the damage from the 1999 hurricane season, micropropagated sweet potatoes just might be the crop to boost cash flow in years to come. (MORE)   http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/magazine/spring00/micro.htm Innovations keep Carolina sweet potato grower on top Southeast Farm Press June 12, 2006 Roy Roberson Bailey, N.C., sweet potato grower Jim Jones doesn't consider himself to be a pioneer in the industry, but his innovations with equipment, seed technology and pest management have put him near the head of the pack among upper Southeast growers. (MORE) http://southeastfarmpress.com/sweet-potato-grower-adapts-information-innovation Blackberries diversify farm Carolina/Virginia Farmer - Sept. 2009 – Michael Brinkley Bailey, NC., It all started because Barbara Jones was looking for something to do. It wasn’t that she had loads of spare time on her and her husband, Jim’s, 800-acre-plus sweet potato and plant farm – she just wanted something to call her own. (MORE) http://magissues.farmprogress.com/SCV/CV09Sep09/scv017.pdf