The Sweet Potato Collaborators Group had its origin in 1938, when at the invitation of Julian C. Miller of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, George B. Hoffman of the U.S.D.A. Horticultural Field Station, Meridian, Mississippi, and W.S. Anderson of the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, a group met at Laurel, Mississippi, and discussed the need for additional research. A plan was developed , upon Miller's suggestion, for requesting federal aid to support an extended program of research throughout the sweetpotato belt. The pioneering efforts of the Mississippi and Louisiana collaborators to secure federal funds were aided by senators, congressmen, and experiment station directors of interested states, especially those of Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. V.R. Boswell of the U.S.D.A., after consultation with the station workers, coordinated the research plans and prepared information required for the federal budget.
From J.L. Bowers, S. A. Harmon, and A.H. Dempsey, 1970. "History of Group and Early Research," Thirty Years of Cooperative Sweet Potato Research 1939-1969.
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