Beet Farmin' Mitch
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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So we have Monosem planters on our farm.
They're like kind of vegetable planters.
So that's why we...
We run those.
A lot of people aren't super common with those, but they're very common where we farm because we need accurate planters, accurate seed spacing, and accurate depth.
Because if you don't have accurate seed spacing, what happens is you can get sugar beets that are either not spaced right or some can get really big and some can be really small.
And then when you top them at harvest, you'll have leafy green tops on the short ones and then the top ones, the top could get cut off more.
So it's really, you know, it's good to have an even stand and even growth in your sugar beet crop.
Yep, so that has an impact on your sugar percent.
And so let's just kind of walk through the growth cycle of a sugar beet, right?
So sugar beet, to kind of summarize this, sugar beets are biennials, but we only grow them as an annual.
So we plant the seed that is grown by different companies out in the western part of the U.S.,
And they make the seed and we plant the seed and the seed is just grows for the rut.
So it doesn't like go to seed in our fields or anything.
Like if you plant a carrot in your garden, it's just a carrot at the, in October, it's a carrot.
Yep.
When we plant our sugar beets end of April, early May, they grow all summer.
And in October, it's just like a, imagine a carrot that's white, that's big and has like 16 to 20% sugar content.
Yeah.
And then we harvest the sugar beet and that's what a sugar beet is.
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