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Grand Forks, North Dakota

The headquarters office in Grand Forks, N.D., is home to farming and packing locations support staff such as accounting, information technology, engineering and agronomy, as well as all sales and marketing functions. There is also a full service transportation department.

The Grand Forks year-round sales office, opened in 1988, is about 40 miles from the original farm. In 2003 the Forest River farm team also joined the Grand Forks office, enhancing communication between sales and production. In 2013 Black Gold Farms moved into our new, LEED Gold certified corporate office.

The Black Gold Farms headquarters office employees about 50 full-time staff, is open year round and available 24/7 to customers and stakeholders.

Live Oak, Florida

Named after the large shade trees that grow in the area, Live Oak, Fla., has rich, center-pivot irrigated sand. This area fills the very important mid May through June chip potato season and is strategically located near the intersection of I-10 and I-75 for easy freight accessibility to chip potato customers in the Eastern markets. A permanent harvest load-out facility was added in 2007.

Crops in Live Oak include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Columbia, North Carolina

The addition of the Columbia, N.C., farm in 2004 marked a new chapter in Black Gold history. The acquisition of the legacy Durwood Cooper Farm moved the company into East Coast shipping lanes and complements the Missouri and Arkansas shipping timeframe. This production area is blessed with deep, silt loam soils which support not only potatoes, but corn and soybean production as well.

Crops in Columbia include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Camden, North Carolina

The George Wood Farm was acquired in early 2015, adding additional chip-stock capacity to Black Gold Farms in the summer months. This farm is located on the eastern shore of North Carolina, situated north of the Albemarle Sound.

Crops in Camden include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Delhi, Louisiana

Additional sweet potato acreage was added in Northeast Louisiana with the acquisition of the Dawson Farm in 2014. A large storage and fresh packing facility was a part of the acquisition, enabling Black Gold Farms to be a year-round supplier of fresh sweet potatoes to the retail and food service trade. A large portion of the production of this farm also helps supply the processed sweet potato market. 

Crops in Delhi include:

• Fresh Sweet Potatoes
• Processing Sweet Potatoes

Arbyrd, Missouri

Started in 1999, and located on the Missouri and Arkansas state line, this farm bridges the harvest schedule between Pearsall, Texas, and Charleston, Mo. It is a loamy area with an early June harvest startup to help supply the summer needs for the chip potato industry.  A new grading facility, complete with an office and quality control complex, was completed in 2002. The state of the art packing facility at this location started running in 2008 to support the fresh operation.

Crops in Arbyrd include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Fresh Potatoes
• Processing Sweet Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Charleston, Missouri

The Charleston, Mo., location is the very first “Distance Farm” for Black Gold Farms. We planted our first potato crop here in 1986; today it is the largest potato grower in the state. It was established closer to population centers to better supply potatoes for the big Fourth of July push. Since 2010 the Charleston location has also been a major sweet potato processing/production area for Black Gold Farms. In 2013 a shed was built to store the sweet potato crop as well as seed potatoes.

Crops in Charleston include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Processing Sweet Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Rhodesdale, Maryland

The addition of the Rhodesdale farm in 2009 completed the spring shipping window for Black Gold Farms. An established potato production area with irrigated, sandy loam soils in and around Dorchester County, Rhodesdale is ideally situated a short distance from much of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada chip and fresh potato market.

Crops in Rhodesdale include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Fresh Potatoes
• Processing Sweet Potatoes
• Other Commodities

Winamac, Indiana

Black Gold Farms is the largest potato grower in Indiana. Winamac, located in the north central production area, supplies the late summer and fall demand for chip potatoes. A modern grading facility with on-scale loading was built here in 2000, enhancing efficiency and capability. Winamac is also essential to the fresh red program in this area to fill in the time frame between Missouri and the Red River Valley.

Crops in Winamac include:

• Chip Potatoes
• Fresh Potatoes
• Processing Sweet Potatoes
• Processing Russet Potatoes

Sturgis, Michigan

The area has an abundance of irrigated, loamy soil ideal for chip potato production. Added in 2000, the farm location sits on the Indiana/Michigan border and added flexibility to Black Gold Farms operation in Winamac, Indiana.

Crops in Sturgis include:

• Chip Potatoes

Forest River, North Dakota

Forest River is the original home farm, where Hallie Halverson started farming potatoes in 1928. Currently, the Forest River farm produces, stores and ships 100,000 CWT of certified seed to the Black Gold Farms commercial farm operations in other states. In 2011 Forest River, which is in the heart of the Red River Valley, started to grow fresh red potatoes.

The Forest River shop performs major overhauls and special machinery projects. A parts coordinator in this location procures and manages inventory of all Black Gold farms machinery parts.

Crops in Forest River include:

• Chip Seed Potatoes
• Red Potatoes

Delhi, Louisiana

A large storage and fresh packing facility was a major part of the acquisition in 2014 of Dawson Farms. This has enabled Black Gold Farms to be a year-round supplier of fresh sweet potatoes to the retail and food service trade. This facility packs sweet potatoes in bags, cartons and micros, as well as other packing options that are available based on customer needs.

Yorktown, Indiana

This facility is the processing, storage and handling facility for Black Gold Farms seed potatoes.