The discussion covers everything from almonds, vineyards, tomatoes, melons, cucurbits, tobacco, cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts, peaches, apples, and leafy vegetables while comparing production practices to the corn and soybean systems familiar to much of the Farm4Profit audience.

Topics include:

• Specialty crop production across the United States
• California almonds, walnuts, pistachios, vineyards and vegetables
• North Carolina sweet potatoes, tobacco and cotton
• Why long-term planning matters in permanent crops
• Water management and irrigation challenges
• Labor costs versus traditional row crop production
• Weed management strategies and residual herbicides
• New Corteva herbicides including Hulk CA
• Managing nematodes with Celebro
• Disease and insect pressure in specialty crops
• How growers balance profitability with quality expectations
• Multi-generational family farms across specialty agriculture
• What all farmers can learn from one another

The conversation highlights that regardless of geography or crop, every producer faces weather risk, pest pressure, rising input costs, and the need to make timely management decisions.

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Nearly twenty years later, DOSE Manufacturing has grown into a 45-person manufacturing company producing premium agricultural equipment, including Headhunter head trailers, Freedom all-wheel-steer trailers, sprayer accessories, rock boxes, fertilizer equipment, and large LED display trailers used across the country.

In this episode, Brett walks through that incredible journey and shares the lessons learned along the way.

The conversation includes:

• How DOSE Manufacturing got its start
• Why Brett stopped repairing equipment and began manufacturing products
• Building the first Headhunter trailer
• Growing from Perry to Bouton and eventually transforming the Story City outlet mall into a manufacturing facility
• Product development through customer feedback
• Engineering equipment for today's larger combines and headers
• Building products for agriculture and the entertainment industry
• The importance of dealer relationships
• Hiring employees and growing a company culture
• Lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, and customer service
• Why "people buy from people"

Brett also discusses how listening to customers has driven continuous innovation, why quality always wins over the cheapest price, and how every challenge has helped create better products.

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After touring the Hagie Manufacturing facility in Clarion, Iowa, Corey Hillebo and his father, Scott Hillebo, reflect on their family's long history with Hagie sprayers and how technology has transformed their farming operation.

Scott shares the story of purchasing his first Hagie STS10 in 2009, using a detasseling cutter to help justify the investment, and eventually progressing through multiple Hagie models as the farm's needs evolved. The conversation highlights how the farm transitioned from using a sprayer primarily for crop protection to utilizing it as a critical management tool for fertility, nitrogen applications, fungicides, foliar feeding, and late-season crop management.

The father-son duo discusses:

• Scott's history owning three Hagie sprayers
• How detasseling helped support the original investment
• The evolution from early STS models to today's technology-packed machines
• ExactApply and its impact on application accuracy and efficiency
• First impressions of John Deere's See & Spray technology
• Why timing matters more than ever in modern crop production
• Using Y-Drops and spoon-feeding nitrogen
• Fungicide and foliar application opportunities later in the growing season
• How a high-clearance sprayer influences agronomic decision-making
• The benefits of controlling application timing in-house
• What stood out most during the Hagie factory tour
• The unique culture of Hagie Manufacturing and its continued focus on craftsmanship
• The partnership between Hagie and John Deere
• The future of precision spraying technology

This episode offers a real-world farmer perspective on how equipment investments can influence management decisions, improve efficiency, and create opportunities to capture additional yield through better timing and precision.

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