vue - Sugar Beet harvest in Minnesota 2013

1. how much water do you use for it?
2. ffhd
3. excellent presentation and very educational! Thanks!
4. nice
5. I love this video. We love our American Farmers. Midwest farmers are some of the hardest working people in America.
6. Al, we have some questions for you about the beet flails.  Would you be open to a phone conversation?
   
   Thank you, Rich Gallagher
7. cool vid:)
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9. Topper is chopping of the top of the beet itself! It should only be cutting the leaves..
10. i live north of you, north of duluth in Canada, i've never seen any beets up here though
11. I was borne, and raised in Michigan, the only thing I know about beet harvesting, is the Mud on the highways, when those trucks come out of the fields, Man ol man, they sure do make the highway a mess, where they come out.
12. excellent video, well made for those of us who will see it for real. thanks and keep up the good word.
13. You people are nutty.
14. These are monsanto™ sugar beets that are gonna kill you.
15. bom dia está uma grande produção de beterraba.
    a beterraba é utilizada somente na indústria alimentícia ou tem outras aplicações na indústria ?
16. What is beet used for? making sugar? not familiar with it here in eastern Asia.
17. oh dontchya know eh
18. i love seeing this process
19. I've been asked where do all the Beet Tops go?  First of all you need to know the tops are mainly water, with little if any nutritional value and only the crown of the beet that is removed has some livestock value if grazed.  
    
    As you can see as I filmed the topping operation most beet tops/greens fall between the rows where the tractor tires and tires on the back of the beet digger/lifter push them into the soil.  
    
    While the two lifter wheels on each beet row turn at ground or tractor speed and pinch the beets out of the ground/soil.  Independent at the top of the lifter wheels are spinning paddles that throw the beets out of the wheels and onto the cleaning bed behind.
    
    These lifter wheels are spoke wheels, which allowing room/area for the soil to fall out to the side of the wheels as dug, also covering most of the crowns and green beet tops or the foliage the topper removed.  Thanks for Asking Charles, hope that helps.  Sincerely Alan Roebke (REB-Key)  Alexandria MN  Informed TV  
20. Awesome  video...