Beet Farmin' Mitch
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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american crystal sugar does all the they do all the marketing and managing of like the factories and the slicing and all that we don't have to get involved in that but like so the farmers own the co-op and so we're you know we can go see the factories and they give us tours and stuff and it's super fun that it's like all family farmers that you know are making sugar up there and
Yeah, once it starts growing, it's the common insects, weeds, diseases.
You know, it's managing all of that kind of stuff.
A couple of the big diseases we have are the biggest one is Cicospora leaf spot.
It's like a leaf spot disease.
Spell that, Dave.
Starts with a C. Gully.
Yeah, so Cicospora leaf spot is our biggest disease that we have to face with sugar beets.
That's more of a July timing thing that we got to manage that.
There's also a fly.
It's like a house fly, sugar beet, root maggot.
That's a big problem.
That's a June kind of issue to manage that.
And then Rhizoctonia, that's a root disease that can cause problems, especially on wet years.
Let's see.
What else do we got?
Yeah.
Great question.
So a lot of it is a balanced plan.
So picking good varieties that have strong resistance to Cicospora, you know, picking good varieties that have strong resistance to Rhizoctonia.
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