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bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Pappy on November 14, 2022, 08:05:54 am ---Beautiful sun set and time is the stand is always relaxing to me, deer or no deer. ;)
Pappy
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Thanks Pappy. Yes it certainly is relaxing. That’s one reason I like to hunt from the ground sometimes. I get a little to relaxed sometimes and I don’t want to wake up hanging from my tree.
23 degrees this morning and I didn’t wash anything yet.
Needed to get some stuff done on computer.
While I was at it I wrote down a few logistics from beet harvest
We had 336 loads from our fields ( I don’t have neighbors figured yet)
Company has our certified acres at 345.8
We delivered a net 11,355.52 tons of beets
We averaged 32.84 tons per acre.
Our average sugar content was 19.43
Raw sugar per ton was 291.94 lbs
That should make 3,315,130.51 lbs of sugar
Pretty good crop of beets especially considering the dry weather . We are happy with it
Bjrogg
Buckskinner:
--- Quote from: bjrogg on November 14, 2022, 11:00:20 am ---
--- Quote from: Pappy on November 14, 2022, 08:05:54 am ---Beautiful sun set and time is the stand is always relaxing to me, deer or no deer. ;)
Pappy
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Raw sugar per ton was 291.94 lbs
That should make 3,315,130.51 lbs of sugar
Pretty good crop of beets especially considering the dry weather . We are happy with it
Bjrogg
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That is a lot of sugar!!! No wonder our nation is so obese!
M2A:
Those are some big numbers BJ. Not sure I can comprehend a pile of anything that large :) We get juice apples trucked in from various states along the east coast, from large growers, and 1 tractor trailer with a dump bed will average about 50k lbs of fruit. Thats about as big of a number I can wrap my head around.
Time to start working for next season? lol
Mike
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Buckskinner on November 14, 2022, 11:53:59 am ---
--- Quote from: bjrogg on November 14, 2022, 11:00:20 am ---
--- Quote from: Pappy on November 14, 2022, 08:05:54 am ---Beautiful sun set and time is the stand is always relaxing to me, deer or no deer. ;)
Pappy
--- End quote ---
Raw sugar per ton was 291.94 lbs
That should make 3,315,130.51 lbs of sugar
Pretty good crop of beets especially considering the dry weather . We are happy with it
Bjrogg
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That is a lot of sugar!!! No wonder our nation is so obese!
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In moderation it’s all good. I don’t have a huge sweet tooth. I do prefer real natural sugar to the artificial sweeteners though. I personally don’t think that stuff is good for you. And I don’t think that’s just the sugar beet farmer in me, but I could be wrong.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: M2A on November 16, 2022, 07:49:11 am ---Those are some big numbers BJ. Not sure I can comprehend a pile of anything that large :) We get juice apples trucked in from various states along the east coast, from large growers, and 1 tractor trailer with a dump bed will average about 50k lbs of fruit. Thats about as big of a number I can wrap my head around.
Time to start working for next season? lol
Mike
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Yes the sugar beet harvest and processing of the beets is a big number game for sure.
It always seems strange that a tall crop of corn looks huge. But even if you chop it for silage it’s still only about 2/3 as many tons per acre as the roots of the sugar beets.
I’m glad our sugar percentage is up this year.
Last year we had incredible tons. We averaged 44 tons per acre. Almost 25% more tons than this year. We ended up having to pay farmers to dispose of those extra tons as we couldn’t process them before they spoiled.
The sugar content was so low that we ended up producing the lowest amount of sugar in many years.
I’d much rather have 32 tons and 19.47 percent sugar than 44 tons and 15 percent sugar . Hopefully we can get these high quality beets processed. We are expecting to have them processed by mid March. That’s a pretty good ending date. Last year was mid April and we didn’t finish. We just disposed of the rest.
Bjrogg
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