Getting to Know Agweek's Mike Spieker: Journalist, Sugarbeet Expert, Racing Enthusiast
Release Date: 01/29/2021
Agweek Podcast
In this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast, we check in with Mikkel Pates who went to Stephen, Minnesota to learn about a home-grown ag equipment company that has turned 50 years old. We will also hear from Emily Beal who visited a North Dakota cattle ranch that is taking its beef directly to consumers, and we caught up with Nick Revier of SESVanderHave for this week’s Sugarbeet Spotlight. Connect with the host Mike Spieker at or on Twitter
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In this week's episode, we get the latest on drought conditions and projects from NDSU Extension Climatologist F. Adnan Akyüz, Ph.D. We also take a tour through the Red River Valley and talk sugarbeet planting with Joe Hastings, General Agronomist for American Crystal Sugar Company, Mike Metzger, Vice President of Agriculture & Research at Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, and Todd Geselius, Vice President of Agriculture at Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative. Connect with the host Mike Spieker at or on Twitter @Beet_Reporter.
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This week's episode covers reasons the price of fertilizer has skyrocketed over the last few months, U.S. Sugar's acquisition of Imperial Sugar in Savannah, Georgia, and how that might impact Red River Valley sugarbeet growers, and we learn about Mitch Rowe of Sure-Flex Hybrids in Jackson, Minnesota. We also introduce a new podcast segment, the "Sugarbeet Spotlight" where we take a look around the latest news across the country in the sugarbeet industry. Connect with the host, Mike Spieker at or on Twitter @Beet_Reporter.
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Hosts Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill chat with Mike Spieker, Agweek's newest reporter and Sugarbeet Grower Magazine editor. Mike joined the Agweek team as we worked Sugarbeet Grower into our brand and we are happy to have him.
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Agweek Staff Writer Emily Beal joins Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill to talk about her recent cover story on the contributions of off-farm income and health insurance for farm families. You can read her story here:
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This week, we talk with Jonathan Knutson on his coverage of the USDA's newest guidelines on healthy eating.
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This week, we talk to Agweek reporter Mikkel Pates about how a North Dakota legislator fears that a focus on the future of the coal industry may hurt value-added agriculture efforts in the state. This episode of the Agweek Podcast is brought to you by , and .
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AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management talk about wheat's big moment, the disappointments in the corn market, the outlook for soybeans and spinning wheels in the cattle market.
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The Agweek Market Wrap talks high soybean and corn prices, how wheat continues to lag those two crops, the somewhat bullish Cattle on Feed report and continued processing fears for livestock markets.
info_outlineHosts Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill chat with Mike Spieker, Agweek's newest reporter and Sugarbeet Grower Magazine editor. Mike joined the Agweek team as we worked Sugarbeet Grower into our brand and we are happy to have him.