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bjrogg:
Nice to hear from you Mike. I’m still optimistic that our beets are going to have good sugar. Haven’t got a result posted on website but my crop advisor said she saw a 18.87% and I’d be happy with that for a start.
We started digging early yesterday morning. There was actually a light white frost. Then the sun came out nice. That should help with the sugar content. We went late last night and finished the field. We are shut down again now because of warm weather. Probably at least until Saturday. Then it’s supposed to get colder. Probably cold enough we could get shut down for frozen beets.
Started in the dark and finished in the dark. That time of year
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Still rain showers just about every day. Can’t seem to get a sunny day, let alone string several together.
We have done a lot of shop work. Finished up and tested out the new apron chain in our litter spreader. Had to make a few changes but think it’s ready. Hopefully it runs trouble free for a long time now.
We are caught right up on tillage and planting cover crops. I took a little crop tour today and looked at some of our cover crop radishes. I think we hit the planting window perfect with them. If you plant them too early they just go to seed. If too late you don’t get much growth and organic matter from them.
Still just a little too warm to pile beets.
A cold front is coming tonight. They will decide tomorrow morning if we can harvest again. Next week looks much colder. Most likely will shut down for frozen beets. This fall has been an unforgiving one so far. If you had the opportunity to do something, you’d better do it right then. Our family farm has been fortunate. We still have a lot of work to do but we have been checking things off the list.
Here’s a couple radishes. Together with the rye they sure green up the field.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We started digging beets again Saturday afternoon. Temperature dropped enough to cool the beets down for piles.
Got sugar results from first field. Average is about 18.4% sugar. Not bad but hoping for better.
Started in beets by my house. Really good beets. 45 tons per acre and got the first two sugar samples back at 19.82 and 19.54. That’s getting impressive.
Rained again last night. I have been looking at fields for the past couple hours but I don’t think we can dig this morning. Maybe this afternoon Maybe
Bjrogg
GlisGlis:
Do you shoot the beets before digging them? (SH)
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: GlisGlis on October 30, 2023, 12:18:39 pm ---Do you shoot the beets before digging them? (SH)
--- End quote ---
No. But last night we finished the strip we were working in just before dark. We didn’t want to open another strip. I just parked my tractor. Got out and took my Simply Orange bow for a little walk till I found a spot to stand and see if anything was interested in giving me a shot. Sometimes we get shut down suddenly because of temperature and I just do my service work and then spend the rest of the daylight hunting.
Tomorrow morning we can’t start early because of cold temperatures. Supposed to get inch of snow.
It rained last night and we didn’t dig today. We probably could have but it would have gone poor at best. I could have dug them, but the logistics of loading them onto trucks without totally destroying my lane and preventing us from getting the ones further back the lane right before a wet inch of snow. We decided not to.
It’s nice to see my quiver there while I’m digging too.
Bjrogg
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