Field Days: Sprinkling the Beets

By Sarah Brown

Published September 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM MDT

Bighorn farmer Shane Strecker checks the control panel of one of his dozens of center pivots

On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn steps up his irrigation game as the summer heat intensifies.

Field Days is an award-winning weekly audio diary following the day-to-day life of agricultural producers in Montana, produced by Yellowstone Public Radio. Theme music by John Kosel.

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Sarah Brown

Sarah Kanter Brown is the producer of YPR’s Field Days. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Brown has worked at newspapers and magazines nationwide.

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