Field Days
Mondays at 7PM
Field Days is a weekly audio diary following the day-to-day lives of Montana farmers and ranchers. Hosted by Sarah Brown and produced by Yellowstone Public Radio, Field Days has featured flower farmers, bison ranchers, veterinarians, beekeepers, and more telling their stories across 15 seasons. Field Days was the recipient of the 2019 E.B. Craney Non-Commercial Radio Program of the Year, awarded annually by the Montana Broadcasters Association. It was a runner-up for the same award in 2024 and 2025. Theme music by John Kosel.
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On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn drives his freshly cut sugar beets to Billings again and again and again. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn wages a war against a deadly fungus. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn stops by the Billings sugar factory just weeks from sugar beet harvest. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn discovers his barley crop mosses the mark for malt. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn steps up his irrigation game as the summer heat intensifies. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn spreads fertilizer on his growing sugar beet crop. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Stecker Farms in Bighorn scouts his fields for signs his sugar beets have sprouted. -
On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn plants a sugar beet field using his wits and a half-million dollars’ worth of technology. -
On the premiere episode of Season 16 of Field Days, Bighorn farmer Shane Strecker works on his sugar beet planter in the wet, windy March days before the season begins. -
On the final episode of Season 15 of Field Days, Matt Skoglund of Norther Bridger Bison and his family cook Sarah Brown a bison dinner.
