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chamookman:
Two Thumbs up on the improvement at the Lake ! What a spot (=) Bob.
Pappy:
Beautiful place for sure BJ. Love the walk way. :)
Pappy
bjrogg:
Thanks Pappy and Bob. Love to spend some time with you guys there sometime.
I haven’t been able to spend much time there lately. We started early dig sugar beets Monday and Tuesday. We can’t store beets yet the weather is to warm for permanent piles. Our yields are going to be huge again. These new varieties just really are amazing. Unfortunately our board members responsible for determining how many acres to plant still haven’t seemed to figure that out. We cut acres 10% this year but they really need to cut about 25% . Or figure out how to process them all before the second week of April next spring. I’m sure we will be disposing of beets again and probably not allowed to harvest all our acres besides.
We dug beets Aug 25& 26th . That’s very early. These beets will be processed immediately after being delivered. We are hoping to get 25% of the crop processed before permanent pile storage which typically starts around October 20.
The beets we dug already yielded 32.7 tons per acre and 14.01% sugar content. Very impressive numbers for this time of year. We don’t need more tons. We need good sugar content. The varieties we planted are supposed to be very good sugar content varieties. We need a good year processing beets. Marketing the sugar isn’t a problem. Processing the beets before they rot is.
These beets should be going through the factory as I type, or hopefully already be made into sugar.
We pile them on the end of the field and then the Maus crew comes and picks them up and delivers them to the factory. Everything is scheduled so we have to dig when they tell us and not before that. Weather conditions can be a problem, but we lucked out this time. Everything went really good.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Wednesday the Maus crew came and picked up our beets. They delivered them directly to the factory “pad” where they will be processed as soon as possible. Hopefully the same day. The next day they will get fresh beets from someone else. That way we can avoid spoilage and process tons that would otherwise be disposed of.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Our edible beans are really coming along. I’m thinking about a week and we should be harvesting our Pinto beans and the first of our black beans.
Always have mixed feelings about harvest. I love the harvest but sometimes I miss the crops in the fields and know that before I’m ready for it the snow will be here. Guess I’ll just enjoy it while I can.
Bjrogg
PS at least I will have the cover crops to keep things green
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