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HH~:
Today was cider day found a tree at hospital and picked a bushel or so. Made a quick gallon. Woylda been nice to find a few sour apples to mix in with theses sweet ones.

Tasty and fresh.

Shawn

bjrogg:
Planted these sugar beets back on April 4th. While self isolating in my tractor.

We have been busy harvesting them the past couple weeks. The fall colors are really good this Year. They have lasted a long time. I think maybe the early hard white frost had maybe had something to do with it. It also pushed the sugar beets to really sweeten up. We are harvesting a very high quality crop of beets. Very good sugar content. I hope we can get good storage weather to keep them over the winter and early spring. Our temperature has been ideal for piling our beets. We want cool, but not freezing temperatures for harvesting and piling our beets. We started our factories back in the middle of August. We will run them 24-7 until all our beets are processed. Probably the end of March or beginning of April 2021. By then we will be planting them again.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
The beets on the left still have their leaves. The ones in the middle have been “topped”. You can see the top of the roots sticking just above the ground. To the right they have been “lifted “and you can see the dug rows where the beets were.
This field is running about 37 tons per acre. That’s almost a semi load every four rows across the field. That requires a lot of trucking. I really appreciate the drivers who have worked for us for many years. We couldn’t do it without them.
Bjrogg

Pat B:
Boy, no rest for the weary. How are you processing the beets? Is it for sugar production?

WhistlingBadger:
Yeah, Pat, they're for sugar.  They grew those like crazy up in the Bighorn Basin where I grew up.  Had to get them processed right quick, though, before it got cold.  No piling until spring up there.

Must feel good to get the harvest in, BJ.  Congratulations.

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