Specialty Crops: What Every Row Crop Farmer Can Learn
About this episode
This episode discusses what traditional row crop farmers can learn from specialty crop producers regarding management practices and profitability.
Most farmers know corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton—but what about almonds, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, vineyards, cucurbits, or tobacco? In this episode of Farm4Profit, Corteva specialists explain how specialty crop producers manage weeds, insects, diseases, labor, water, and long-term investments while drawing surprising comparisons to traditional row crop farming. Whether you're raising almonds in California or corn in Iowa, the fundamentals of profitable farming are more alike than you might think.
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