Very simply, CUSTOMER SERVICE and ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY.

Black Gold Farms is founded and principled on world class customer service. Ten farms raise and ship fresh Irish potatoes in 11 states from late April-November and ship storage fresh reds September-April. Four farms in four states provide fresh and/or storage sweet potatoes year around. We position our farms near our customers to optimize transportation, provide locally grown options and to reduce our carbon footprint. Each reason is tied to quality and timely delivery as part of world class service for our customers.

Black Gold Farms Farming Locations:

Pearsall, TX – Our earliest harvest starting in late April. Beautiful irrigated, early red and chip potatoes for our southern customers and also select fresh for areas without storage. April-mid June harvest On-site packaging in totes or poly.

Live Oak, FL – Irrigated early chip potatoes for the Eastern Seaboard shipping north and south. Highest solid potatoes grown in Florida. May-June harvest.

Columbia and Camden, NC – Dryland chip and fresh reds to replace storage for customers along the northern seaboard. Fresh potatoes are delivered in totes or poly packages. June-July harvest.

Rhodesdale, MD – Irrigated chip and sweet potatoes shipping into Canada and all across the East. July-August harvest.

Charleston and Arbyrd, MO (Land is also in Arkansas) – Irrigated chip, sweet and fresh potatoes. Very high solid potatoes shipped in the Central US. Sweet potatoes primarily for processing. June-July harvest.

Sturgis, MI – Irrigated chipping potatoes shipping to Canada and across US. Late July- October harvest.

Winamac, IN – Irrigated chipping and fresh potatoes for Central and Eastern US. Fresh are shipped in August-September and chipping potatoes July-November.

Delhi, LA – Your finest fresh and processing sweet potatoes delivered bulk or package for the store. Shipping year around.

Forest River, ND – Irrigated and dryland for chip and fresh. We supply 20% of our own seed needs and beautiful dark red fres potatoes for shipping September-April. Reds are shipped in totes or poly packaging.

The wide geographic footprint provides WEATHER PROTECTION/DIVERSITY for our crops. Challenging weather occurs randomly every year somewhere which may damage crops while perfect weather in other areas will provide excellent yields and quality. Our individual locations give Black Gold Farms customers confidence that we will be able to deliver quality and volume that we promise. Each farm production area is selected with acute knowledge of the local soils and weather. Potatoes do their very best in sandy, well drained soils.

Again, customer service and high quality are preeminent in selecting each site.

To learn a little more about how and when we started each location, check out our history.

Other interesting facts:

* We lease most of our farm land, as potatoes are excellent rotational crops.

* We hire local talent whenever we can. They know how to farm in their own backyards.

* There are several Black Gold Farms, full time employees at each farm. There are many, many more employees that are seasonal.

Let us know if you have any other questions that we can dig into! We'd be happy to answer. Contact Us.