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Can you go over the typical yearly schedule for you for plantings of corn and soybeans for your area? When do you decide to plant, when do you add fertilizer/any sprays, what do you tend to use for those?
What are some milestones for plant growth along the way? When do you harvest?
Do you do crop rotation? If you do what's your schedule?
What do you do in the winters?
When you sell to the grain elevators do you have any idea what your grains typically end up being used for in the end?
I hear a lot that someone starting out from scratch in large-scale farming needs a lot of capital, and it's run more like a family business where a lot of the assets are passed from generation to generation. Is this true?
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Do you mainly sell to customers fresh or dried mint? Do your customers usually sell it as fresh mint (i.e. restaurants, grocery stores), dried mint for herb blends and tea, or are they doing solvent extractions to pull out the mint oils?
What kind of packaging do you do on site? Big huge bundles of mint? Or do you do clamshells for grocery stores?
Are there many other mint growers in southern Michigan? Is there anything specific about the mitten's climate that benefits mint production?
What's the biggest challenge facing mint or herb agriculture these days?
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