Todd Spivey

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

Yeah, I mean, I think especially as we deal with, you know, input cost, weeds are harder to control.

Diseases may or may not be becoming harder to control.

Corn on corn, beans on beans, things like that.

We can make it work when we need to.

But, you know, thinking ahead, hey, I know I'm going to have corn in this field next year.

I know grasses are going to be harder to control next year.

So let's make sure I really focus on grass in my bean crop this year, right?

So, yeah, everything we do, if we're thinking forward, you know, tomorrow's, you know, tomorrow's Todd is going to appreciate it.

I would say it depends on the, I think there's two different types of risk here, right?

Like there's the financial risk, yes, because the upfront cost, you know, from that specialty crop is definitely higher in terms of how, and even you think about these permanent crops, you're carrying that risk for three years before you begin to see that return.

The other side of that risk of, hey, am I willing to, you know, how many insect pests am I willing to see in that field?

How many, you know, if I see one plant on the end of that field with some sort of, you know, downy mildew or something like that on it, right?

But we're going in today.

So it's not, from a risk standpoint, short-term risk or in-season risk to that harvest, no, they hardly tolerate any risk.

Financial risk, yeah, they're obviously willing to take a little more on from that standpoint, but yeah, I guess depending on which way you look at it.

I think it's funny you say that.

Locally, and I don't know about California, but locally, yes, in terms of, right, we talked a little bit about tobacco earlier, but every tobacco grower or 90% of the tobacco growers are sweet potato growers.

North Carolina is the number one sweet potato growing state.

We grow about 60% to 65% of the sweet potatoes in the country.

I love sweet potatoes.

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