Crops

To Corder Farms, diversity is essential. We embrace a wide variety of crop rotations with a focus on biodiversity, soil health, and the best use of our valuable water resources. We manage crops based on diversification practices that enhance key elements of biodiversity to reduce impacts on the environment while enhancing crop quality.

Corder Farms uses cutting edge, water and power efficient management practices including prescriptive pivot overhead irrigation with Crop X moisture sensing and Low Elevation Spray Application (LESA).

We are able to tailor both our water and nutrition application through meticulous data management gathered through the Crop X moisture sensing system and weekly plant tissue sampling.

Our current hay varieties include racetrack grade orchard grass, timothy, alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mix and grain hay.

For the past 30 years, we’ve been the seed garlic nursery for Olam Spice and their predecessors, producing virus-free, high yielding garlic that minimizes the use of fertilizer and pesticides.

The high-altitude, short season climate of the Fall River Valley has four distinct seasons. While our extreme temperature fluctuations can seem challenging, they also help create unique properties in the crops we grow. This environment and our careful management created extremely high quality volatile compounds in the Peppermint oil we grew and distilled for the past 20 years.

We’ve also had great success with other crops because of the same environmental factors. Both our seedless baby watermelon – “Moonshine Melons” had very high brix sugar content, as well as our sugar beet crops.

At Corder Farms, we are always experimenting with new crops that have potential in our climate. In the past few years we’ve grown hops, catnip, pumpkins, seed carrots, blueberries, truffles, lettuce, fingerling potatoes, and currently – asparagus. We are always open to fresh ideas and
markets.