Jim Jones
Owner of Jones Family Farms
Committees: External Relations and Resource Development Committee
Term Ending: 2028
Bio
Jones Family Farms is run by Jim Jones and his wife, Barbara. The couple started the enterprise in 1980 and now includes their daughter and son, Jessica and Jimmy. The Jones children came back to the farm after having off-the-farm jobs and now play strategic roles in the operation.
Jim started buying micropropagated mother sweet potato plants from NC State University in the mid-1990s and soon became a certified plant and seed producer with help from N.C. State University, N.C. Crop Improvement Association Inc. N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. With confidence in micropropagated seed, he has increased the acres he plants each year to supply new customers. Jones Family Farms is one of only a few farms in the world that grow micropropagated, certified, virus-indexed plants for sweet potato production.