Field Days: Sugar Stop

By Sarah Brown

Published October 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM MDT

Bighorn sugar beet farmer Shane Strecker poses outside the Western Sugar Cooperative in Billings

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.

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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