First Day of Sugar Beet Harvest!

October 21st marks the first day of Sugar Beet Harvest 2023! This video contains the first partial day of Harvest as we didn't start until late morning, and we got shut down early because the beets became too hot to be piled.
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[@sarah_farm]

She's hard working woman God Bless 🙏 you! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

[@edgarantoniocastrosoto]

saludos de los mochis sinaloa aqui tambien usamos esas desvaradoras para papas y remolacha las importamos de dakota del norte y idaho y iowa

[@Snowtruckdriver]

The factory determines digging days early in the season. Early dig beets will not hold in the pile until cold weather sets in so the factory only runs what it can process on a daily basis. My family used to grow beets in Eastern Washington 50 plus years ago. U & I sugar is no longer growing beets in Eastern Washington.

[@StevenEvans-be1ce]

I'm in Idaho I like show

[@MrChrisdamien]

Don’t let that defoliator get too far ahead of the digger. Those high temp shut downs can get you and then you have too many topped beets that you can’t dig. We typically keep a 1 pass ahead and when temps get “warm”, we stay in the same pass just in case

[@idahofarmlife]

We were told that the only thing that will hurt topped beets is frost, so we want to be sure to dig all the beets we top when it freezes at night, but so far we haven't been worried about that. Maybe there are other reasons to keep the top on that we don't know about? Another reason is we have been working with 500ft passes, so it's nice to keep a little distance between us so we don't get in each other's way. Once we switch fields and have longer runs, we can keep the topper closer to the digger and not have any issues.

[@user-xq9gn3re3l]

@@idahofarmlife A topped beet will get warm faster than a beet with leaves on it. Its all about the core temp of the beet, and storing them in the pile. Here in Minnesota on hot days and cold nights we keep the topper close....like 100' close.