Market Farming

[robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>]

In southern NJ we are the third largest sweet potato growing area in the
country, all I can say is sweet potatoes like our oppressively long hot humid
summers and seem to be planted in very sandy soils with 1/2% OM.. On rich soil
the tubers grow to the size of foot balls and are worthless as a market item
and usually sold in bins for deer bait. I know one guy who grows the crop to
sell only as deer bait.   Cane sorghum has been grown in NY as greenchop for
dairy cows. If your season will grow a good field dried grain corn crop it
should grow sorguhm...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

"Paul A. Bock" wrote:

> Hello,
>   Has anybody ever tried growing sweet potatoes in the northeast?  Western
> New York Specifically (10-15 miles inland from lake Erie)
>
>   How about Cane Sorghum for sorghum syrup?
>
> Paul Bock
> Stone Gully
>
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