The new era of extreme price volatility coupled with very high prices and equally high crop insurance revenue guarantees have made it tough for the minor or specialty crops to compete with corn, wheat and soybeans as farmers make their planting decisions. The increasing shift of Northern Plains acreage to corn and soybeans also makes the problem worse. It is the rapid advances in corn and soybean genetics that have made these crops offer better returns per acre across an increasingly wider geography. This problem always comes to the forefront this time of year as farmers are completing the current harvest and at least starting to think about what they might plant in 2013. Those whose business is the minor or specialty crops have found it...

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