My Turn to Dig Beets! - Idaho Sugar Beet Harvest #6

On the last day of Sugar Beet harvest, I was finally able to take a turn running the beet digger. Hopefully, in future beet harvests, I can run the digger a little more!
Thanks for watching!
#johndeere #harvest #sugar #sugarbeet

[@michelvanwerven2290]

Your vids were a pleasure to watch. I am from the Netherlands and we store the sugar beets on the headlands of the fields or sometimes at the side of a road if there is sufficient space for safe storing. The suger plants get out to get the beets themselves. Mostly through custom guys loading.

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy Idaho farm

[@idahofarmer6775]

Now that you guys are going beets down there, it'd be nice if the old beet dump was still open

[@idahofarmlife]

There's enough dumps around that the haul isn't too bad. When there wasn't much of a line at the dump, the digger didn't wait very long for the next round of trucks. A few more trucks would have been perfect.

[@idahofarmer6775]

Back 30 years ago there was a lot more beets grown around that area with 4 pilers north of town where are you go now and 2 pilers south of town. Then the sugar company reduced the south dump to 1 piler for about 10 years before closing it completely and selling the ground. I don't know if you are old enough to remember the beet dump being there but you are very familiar with the ground it was on LoL. We dug and hauled a lot of beets in to that dump years ago. Alot of the tare dirt got dumped on your grandpa's ground for a few years.

[@idahofarmlife]

Who exactly are you? I only ask because I've tried really hard not to give away my location, but you seem to be familiar with the area as well as my family.