Todd Spivey

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Specialty Crops: What Every Row Crop Farmer Can Learn · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

But no, I actually did an undergrad in turf.

So definitely a different side of it there.

But yeah, both grad programs were in row crops, specifically in cotton, working in cotton agronomy.

So after grad school, I used all that cotton work to be a soybean specialist for the state of Louisiana.

So I did that for a couple of years.

That's the only time that I've lived outside of North Carolina, but got to come home, work for a cotton seed company for a little while, and been with Corteva since the fall of 2021.

It is.

And in fact, oftentimes, you know, the gin will, for lack of a better term, buy the seed off the grower and let that be part of their gin payment.

And it goes to a lot of different things.

It can be crushed into oil.

It can be used as feed.

So it is a true byproduct that makes a difference on the bottom line, right?

Yeah.

The only way we make cotton is by making seed, right?

Because that cotton lint is, you know, a hair that comes off of that seed.

So seed first, cotton comes with it.

Yeah, unfortunately, the last couple years of cotton have been on the lower end, I guess you could say.

Yields have been strong the last couple years, but commodity prices just have not held up there with it.

And there's been a lot of headwinds too, right?

The problem with

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