Planting Sugar Beets in the Red River Valley

Curious about how sugar beets are grown? It's a science, and today we take a look at sugar beet planting on our family farm as well as some other day-to-day farm shenanigans!
A soup can + a hot engine = a great lunch!
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Howdy and jak se máš! (Czech for "How are you?")
We're a sugar beet farmin’ family in the Red River Valley of North Dakota! Our farm specializes in growing sugar beets, hard red spring wheat, sunflowers, corn, soybeans, and various types of dry edible beans. The legacy currently consists of my dad, my uncle, my two older brothers, and I (Beet Farmin Mitch).
I am a 6th generation family farmer recently graduating with college degrees in both Agricultural Economics and Crop and Weed Sciences. Enjoy as I showcase our operations everyday work, grow as a young farmer, be a goofball, and walk out the most important thing to me. My love for King Jesus!
My hope is that you may be entertained and spurred on to grow in your passion and knowledge for all things agriculture!
Instagram: @beetfarminmitch
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[@gotaboard]

I friggin love this guy.

[@beetfarminmitch]

Appreciate C Class Certified! Big fan of your work myself homeslice!

[@9dariandraught8]

HE'S COOL !!

[@mirandadusek7515]

Lunch is my favorite part

[@allaboutfarmingMN]

The gumba of the red river valley strikes again. Great vid mitch!

[@cristianoforever]

i just searched how sugar beets are planted due to farming simulator curiosity and end up here, loved the video, keep it up 👍

[@jasondusek5170]

Beet Farmin Mitch!!

[@bladewiper]

Do you buy your seed in those pails, or is that just how you load the planter. Always great to see Doug.

[@beetfarminmitch]

We buy the seed in those pails. Sugarbeet seed is really small so it goes a long ways. One pail like that plants about 6.4 acres. And since we have box planters, it’s nice for loading the planter because we have to be more precise with the beet seed.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Has any of the flooding effected your farms?

[@salimselcik7510]

hello, how many cm do you plant the beet seed, thanks

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌❤🇨🇦

[@mrksk2132]

Is that a GMO sugarbeets ? If it is what resistance has it got, roundap? Unfrotunetly here in Europe we can't grow GMO ... 😶

[@beetfarminmitch]

Yes, 95% or more sugar beets grown in the area are GMO. Roundup resistance and there is Dicamba resistance in the works for release in a few years.

[@mrksk2132]

@@beetfarminmitch Cool , in EU we really wanted to have this ones but environmentalists are oppose this...

[@Berusahasemaksimalmungkin]

I want buy sugar beet seed

[@alanl.simmons9726]

Can sugar beets be used to make ethanol ?

[@beetfarminmitch]

I’ve heard of it the idea being tossed around before, but I know the efficiency window on ethanol is pretty narrow. It think corn is the overall better option for that economically, logistically, and agronomically.

[@OlsonLMusic]

DOUG!

[@gotaboard]

I want a steak..

[@somemoe69]

Are the beets ready yet?

[@beetfarminmitch]

They just emerged out of the ground a couple days ago! They are just gettin started.