-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.
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- Topping the sugarbeets
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- Topped (left) and untopped beets (right)
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- The most intense job
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- Lifter wheels remove the sugarbeets from the soil
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- 2-row sugarbeet harvester
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- Total beet weight for each plot is recorded to calculate yields
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- Subsamples are taken from each plot for sugar analysis
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- Harvesting sugarbeets is fun