NC: How Scott Family Farms Grew From 60 to 14,000 Acres

Via Cousin John

 There are three generations of Scotts at the family farm in Lucama, North Carolina.

With humble beginnings on 60 acres, the sixth-generation Scott Family Farms now spans 14,000 acres and includes a growing sweet potato exporting business. 


If the late Linwood Scott Sr. could see his family’s farm today, there would be few similarities from the tobacco and soybean farm he knew with today’s large, diverse, and international operation.

“He wouldn’t recognize it,” says Linwood Scott Jr., his son, who is better known as Sonny. “If he had the same mentality he had in 1976, he’d think I was crazy. I might be. Who knows?”

“For the record, I don’t think he is,” adds Jeff Thomas, director of marketing at Scott Farms International.

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