AdvertisementBehind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The FieldsNovember 24, 2015Dan CharlesfacebookEmailWorkers sort potatoes in the field, collecting small and large ones in different buckets. Each bucket weighs 30 pounds or so. A worker will shoulder that bucket and dump it into a flatbed truck 400 to 500 times a day. It's a daily load of 6 or 7 tons of sweet potatoes. (NPR)