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1. Where might students find photos (on the Internet or otherwise) of US sweetpotato varieties showing typical tuber shape, internal color, and what the leaves look like? The intent would be to use these in a report about US food crops.

2. The US Dept. of Agriculture prepares Annual Crop Production Statistics, as well as Census of Agriculture Statistics. However, these two kinds of statistics disagree as to the ranking of important sweetpotato producing states. This is confusing for students preparing reports who are trying to use official government statistics.


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Dear Barry,

The following might be useful:
http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/v/sweet.html

Sincerely,

Anthony R. Brach


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