Beet Blast 2009 30+ Ton Sugar Beets

Video shot on 10/20/2009 at dusk. This field is almost as busy as O'Hare airport! Watch this family farm (108 + years) harvest sugarbeets. Stoutenburg Farms, Sandusky, Michigan, harvests annually several hundred acres of sugar beets for the farmer owned cooperative Michigan Sugar.

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[xam107]

where the plants mowed before harvest looks like but also nice vid

[eagerjeffrey]

@xam107 actually they were topped with a "Topper".

[xam107]

@eagerjeffrey ääähh sorry im german so i dont really get what you mean with topper

[eagerjeffrey]

@xam107 a Topper is a machine that removes the foilage of the sugar beet plant.

[Kennypaulsen1]

nice video

[eagerjeffrey]

@Kennypaulsen1 Thanks!

[The93bronco]

how much do you sell the foilage for to cattle ranchers ?

thanks MT

[Magnum9250]

im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten spielen Bodenverdichtungen sicherlich noch keine Rolle.

[xam107]

@eagerjeffrey a thx but could that also be done with a normal mower?

[Kennypaulsen1]

Please.,.,!! your video is really the hammer something I've never looked at me,..!!eagerjeffrey