date:Aug 21, 2018
rice than USA grown sweet potatoes, she added. Sweet potato growers are suffering and just in the first half of 2018, three US packing houses filed Chapter 11.
Europe needs the US
Some shippers lowered their prices artificially to gain market share. Prices were lowered so much that it became a market reference and now, it is very hard to bring the prices back up unless all players in the industry collaborate, Hocutt mentioned. Europe relies on the US for sweet potato imports as there are only p