Category: sugar beets
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Beet Farmers
I've mentioned before the problems the beet farmers are having getting the sugar beets in and now it has come to my attention how much worse it got. Last week on Monday and Tuesday it got really cold and froze the beets. Once the beets freeze like this the farmers have lots of trouble.<br />n<br…
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Pulling Beets
<center>We took a little drive on Sunday and took some pictures, here is one of them.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg'><img width='700' height='467' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I've mentioned the trouble the beet farmers having getting their beets out of the ground. Here you see they are finally able to get them mudded out…
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Rain Problems
I'm lucky. All it's seems to do lately is rain around here but that doesn't bother me. We are storing moisture in the ground for next year and actually growing a little grass. It's not good for all people though.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/26/news/local/20-beets.txt" >Rain could spoil record sugar beet harvest</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Seldom does one hear…