Fiber & Staple
Tobacco (field and seed), cotton and cottonseed, sugarcane, sugar beet, peanut, guar, kenaf, and jojoba — the industrial crops of the southern field.
B-Down Exotics, LLC farms the crops that commodity agriculture left behind — tobacco and cotton, sugarcane and sugar beet, hay and seed grasses, botanicals from agave to tea, and maple sap drawn straight from the field. Five plot families, all open field, all Texas-grown.
Every crop has its own plot, its own rotation, and its own row in the field register. The full map is on the Fields page.
Tobacco (field and seed), cotton and cottonseed, sugarcane, sugar beet, peanut, guar, kenaf, and jojoba — the industrial crops of the southern field.
Alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay, and mixed-hay farming — cut, cured, and baled on our own ground.
Certified and production seed: alfalfa, bentgrass, Kentucky bluegrass, clover and crimson clover, fescue, orchard grass, ryegrass, sorghum-sudan, and hay seed.
Agave, aloe, amaranth, chicory, open-field herbs, hops, mint, spice and tea cultivation — plus licensed open-field hemp and cannabis where Texas law permits.
Maple sap gathering and field concentration — reduced on-site to pure maple syrup, from tap line to final draw.
General combination crop farming — mixed rotations and companion plots that keep the soil working and the risk spread.
Seed plots go in first — bluegrass, fescue, ryegrass — followed by cotton, peanut, and the botanical beds. Sap lines are drawn down and cleaned for the off-season.
First and second hay cuttings, cane and beet growth cycles, hop training, and the daily weed war every specialty crop demands.
Tobacco priming, cotton pull, seed-crop harvest and cleaning, mint distillation runs — the season the register fills up.
Rotation planning, soil sampling, equipment rebuild, and contracting for next year's buyers. The field rests; the ledger doesn't.
B-Down Exotics farms from Red Hawk Lane in Hearne — Robertson County ground between the Brazos bottom and the post oak belt, with the soil diversity specialty cropping needs.
We sell by contract and by the lot: graded seed, baled forage, botanical raw material, and field-reduced maple syrup. Buyers get traceability to the plot, not just the pallet.
"A field tells you what it can grow. Our job is to plant the crop nobody else bothered to ask for."
B-Down Exotics · Field NoteSeed, forage, botanicals, or syrup — describe the crop and the volume. We reply within one business day.
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