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In 2012, our family built a sweet potato packing house in Wilson, North Carolina to service our customers’ growing needs. Eastern North Carolina is a prime location for domestic and international shipments. With close proximity to truck routes on major interstates, and operating less than a three-hour drive from the Port of Norfolk’s container ships, our packing house bustles six days per week. State-of-the-art facilities allow us to accommodate virtually any packing request throughout the year with three loading docks and two dedicated packing lines (stainless steel conventional packing line and an organic packing line). Contact us to schedule a tour of our sweet potato packing house. You’re welcome to visit!

Minimizing Risk

Boyette Brothers Produce has always been committed to supplying safe products for consumption

We provide both clean manufacturing equipment and a clean environment for our employees and our food products. Since our first day in operation, our equipment has been washed, cleaned and sanitized on a daily basis. This level of consistency ensures the highest standard of cleanliness, personal hygiene and housekeeping. While our facilities are behind locked access, visitors can sign-in at our front office and complete a health questionnaire before touring our facilities.

Food Production Certifications

The Boyette family maintains several accreditations and certifications on both our farm Rock Ridge Farms and our packing house Boyette Brothers Produce. We acquired these designations voluntarily and prior to construction of our packing house because our family believes in agricultural processes that not only align with preserving the environment, but that foster long-term growth and quality. Our certifications range from ethical labor and safe processing, to sustainable food production and organic farming.

GLOBALG.A.P. recognizes Good Agricultural Practice on a worldwide scale for sustainability and safety. This organization and the Boyette family both have a vision for farming practices that have long-term positive impacts on the world. Our farm was one of the first farms in Wilson County to become GLOBALG.A.P. certified, and we were certified before it became mandatory for all exporters.

“Good Agricultural Practice is not just about products; it’s also about people.

GRASP (GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice) is a voluntary module that helps protect one of our farm’s most important resources: our people. This module assesses our farm operation’s social practices, workers’ health, safety and welfare.
The HACCP Alliance manages multiple accreditations for various areas of the food production industry. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) provides a global industry standard for food safety.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Certified Organic label is one of the most recognized certifications. Organic certification is only granted by the USDA to farms that meet stringent standards, some including: no use of pesticides for at least 3 years prior to certification, no pesticide use while certified (or risk losing accreditation), and pass routine inspections. Every step of production and distribution benefits from this practice. Our sweet potato farm practices reduce the impact of chemical exposure on workers and the environment, our buyers can market and charge a higher premium for organic produce, and consumers enjoy supporting an environmentally-conscious farm while limiting their consumption of foods grown with pesticides.