-E. Taylor
All of our sugarbeet plots at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center were harvested September 15th and 16th. Here are a few photos from the harvest.
- Topping the sugarbeets
- Topped (left) and untopped beets (right)
- The most intense job
- Lifter wheels remove the sugarbeets from the soil
- 2-row sugarbeet harvester
- Total beet weight for each plot is recorded to calculate yields
- Subsamples are taken from each plot for sugar analysis
- Harvesting sugarbeets is fun







