Beet Farmin' Mitch

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Beet Farmin’ Mitch: Sixth-Generation Sugar Beet Farmer · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And if things are going good and nothing's broken down, I can go home and get a few hours of sleep.

Holy smokes.

Wow.

So it usually takes, the main campaign usually takes, if it goes good, a couple weeks to get the whole crop off for everybody.

But it can take into November at least.

It was a very wet and muddy harvest, that's for sure.

So that was difficult.

So that has a big factor on how long it takes.

Same with if you have a larger crop, it takes longer.

So the two main factors for sugar beets are tons and sugar percent.

Those are the two main factors you go by.

So you go by your tons per acre and you also go by your sugar percentage.

Right.

So if your sugar percent is lower, your moisture is probably higher.

But it's not like grain where it's like, you know, 13 percent moisture or whatever.

Go by the sugar percentage.

So you get paid depending on your sugar percentage and your tons.

So it's always better to have a higher sugar percentage.

And so like some of those diseases we face, like Cicospora leaf spot, that has a very negative impact on the sugar percentage in the crop because the plant is trying to survive and heal itself up from having Cicospora leaf spot.

And so that can have a negative impact on the sugar percent.

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