Todd Spivey
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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One of the, you know, probably the...
Probably the one pest that we spend the most money on and that's not because it's necessarily the worst pest But just because everybody has a seed treatment or an infer application regardless of Whether you see that first thrips or not We fight the same thrips and our fruiting vegetables right there in our tomatoes and peppers and things like that so
A lot of the pests are the same.
Some of them definitely are different.
But oftentimes these are, you know, these little guys are good at trying to get into anything and everything they can.
I always joke with, with our MDS counterparts up this way.
Anytime we start talking about insects, we have to remind him, you know, it's those little things that crawl around on six legs.
Cause, uh, you know, they, uh, we got beetles.
Yeah, I mean, and I think probably one of the big things that these specialty growers do really well and that I've learned a lot from them and I think a lot of our growers can is, you know, just understanding, right, it's a long-term game.
Right.
Even in those short crops, even in that 40 day cucumber, you know, that cucumber crop.
Right.
It's a long term game of, hey, I've got to protect this crop.
But what I'm doing now affects what happens in my, you know, a lot of these cases are second crop or the next the following year.
Right.
You know, we talk often about the weed bank, you know, weed seed bank, right?
You know, keeping that controlled, but it's not just weeds, right?
It's diseases, it's, you know, insect pests and things that I can do today, you know, will help make me successful this year, but they'll also help make us successful going forward.
Don't, you know, don't put something off just because it, you know,
You know, the year, yeah, I mean, the year's a little tight this year, but are you hurting yourself more next year because you tried to take something easy this year?
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