Beet Farmin' Mitch

speaker

685 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

Beet Farmin' Mitch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Picking varieties is important.

And, you know, each year the varieties continue to get better.

So that's helps us in that department.

Um,

So the sugar beet root maggot fly is a fly in June that we have to deal with.

And so that one we have to use insecticide or seed treat kind of to take care of that one.

So early on in the season.

And then, and then of course we've got to deal with weed pressure with different herbicides and stuff.

So it's, it can be tough.

It's a lot to stay on top of to make sure we can keep the beets going.

It's, it's a lot of moving parts to manage.

That's what it feels like all summer.

Well, if you've been around for sugar beet harvest on a muddy year, you kind of need it to get through the field.

He's got a lot of drive-thru stories.

So as we're working through the life cycle of a sugar beet, right?

So we've gone through planting.

We've gone through kind of taking care of them in the summer.

Sugar beet harvest, we have kind of two harvests, right?

There's a pre-harvest, we call it, and then there's a main campaign.

So the pre-harvest typically starts mid-August.

Showing 221–240 of 685 · page 12 of 35