Beet Farmin' Mitch

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

So kind of the recommended fertility guidelines is like 130 pounds of available nitrogen in the top four feet.

So we actually soil sample down four feet a lot of times just because the sugar beets go down super far and can utilize that.

And also the tooth sampling too, but it's not as much.

One time somebody thought that we used way more nitrogen than corn.

You actually want to run out of nitrogen towards the end of the season.

So if you have too much nitrogen, your tons will be super high or increase and the plants will grow vegetatively.

and the sugar percent will be lower.

So you actually want to really manage nitrogen well so that your sugar beet doesn't have too much available where it negatively impacts the sugar percentage.

So it's really important to manage fertility with sugar beets.

So the minimum we can do is three-year rotation on beets.

No, like one year of Beats, two years of something else, and then you could come back with Beats again.

Wheat is the most common where we're at before.

Also, edible beans work well beforehand.

The farther south you go, like Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, they do a lot of corn before beets.

Where we're at, that gets a little tricky, just kind of managing that.

Moisture can be a little different.

We're more in wheat country than we are in corn country, so economically it makes more sense to focus on

you have the place to yeah yeah and you have the place to like if you're growing wheat you have more processors and more options to get rid of wheat and then yeah at times corn up in that area so yep yep so yeah rotation wise minimum of three year rotation so like you can only grow it once every three years um four is probably like a good place to be i don't know get something else in there plant some corn after sugar beets or sunflowers or something and

Disease management is probably the biggest thing.

Just, you know, root diseases in the soil, just being extra cautious to make sure that we are sustainable as a sugar beet cooperative, I'd say is probably the biggest thing.

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