Special Episode: Sugar Beet Harvest - America's Heartland
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this special episode, reporters Jason Shoultz and Sarah Gardner travel to Minnesota to get a first-hand look at the sugar beet industry in action. We'll learn how farmers in the region work together and around the clock to transform sugar beets fresh from the fields into the sugar products we find in our pantries.
At sugar processing factories across Minnesota, thousands of people labor almost without a moment's rest to pull beets are out of the ground and process them into sweet sugar. You might not think of sugar coming from oversized white beets, but that's exactly what happens once they get to the factory. Hundreds of workers are required to help deliver the beets, dumping them into huge piles, ready for processing. It all requires the perfect confluence of ideal weather, synchronized work, and relentless willpower.
Drove to American crystal in drayton and many fields Steven's argyle loved every minute of it I am 80 now my memories will always be with me thank the men I worked with for good times
I remember working for Neil's father 45 +years ago that green and white ihc tandem was his dad's 1st tandem I drove it home from crookston MN I remember the boy's I remember Neil as very young boy of course I'm in my 60s
Fond memories from more simpler times
That same factory is still running in Crookston, MN for American Crystal Sugar.
That was his Uncle
Back in the 50s I helped out on Whites farm @ over Stratton Somerset, in those days the beets pulled by hand, useing a beet hook to chop the tops off . Then loaded in a trailer, taken to Martock railway station, and loaded into a railway wagon, all done by hand, some say the good old days, bloody hard work,
Thank you Farmers .
for taking care of us .
Kinda like being in the military 🎖️ You guys are the BOMB 💥💥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍
My wife and I are working the sugar beet Harvest for the first time this year really looking forward to it
Running a combine is a bucket list item for me.
My brothers, and sisters, graduated from Jordan HS, the Best Diggers. The Beet Diggers came from when Sugar Beets used to be grown in southern Salt Lake County, Utah, back in the late 1800's, early 1900s. Very rich history. One of the things they used to do was too Top the Beets. Well, given the knives to Top the Beets are dangerous they're not allowed in the schools anymore...
This brings back so many memories of when i used to haul sugar beets from the Bakersfield Californian area to the beet plant In Santa Maria Ca , glad to know it’s still going strong in America
Thank you for your support in the drug trade. It keeps my sugar addiction intact.
didn't know sugar beets could be grown in a near desert enviornment
Howdy Jaime De LA G...good to know that You still have fond memories of the Harvesting.
Sincerely, Manny (Almaguer) ß.
Thank you to all the farmers in America. May THE LORD truly bless you all Amen.
My grandpa would pull over and pick up a couple of the sugar beets that dropped off one of them trucks me and my brother would peel it clean and chew em up and spit out the pulp for the rest of the trip to Sacramento ca
My family bought the first ROPAs in the United States and we’re all proud sugar farmers up here in Michigan
Farmers in America feeds The 🌎.the equipment and land is amazing.and God bless you losing sleep 😴🇺🇲💯👍
From a old campaigner for Michigan Sugar. Did it from the piler of 1880 vintage from Germany to stacking 100# bags on pallets seven tier high by five bags a tier and doing over a 1000 pallets a shift. Making lime for filtering to straddling tank cars to watch it fill with molasses in January and it wasn't that slow. The nickle bag pealing for the liquid sugar tanks was the hardest because sugar was like bricks from the moisture seaping thru the paper. Just staying away from the bees was really hard. We ran from October thru February or March if spring was running late. Younger brother got on full time after 10 years of campaigning. They paid for his schooling as a boiler operator.
Lime? You sure it wasn't soda ash?
My good lord you guys are hardworking. Loved watching the process.
I'm a rookie starting the 2023 red river valley campaign tmrw, Hamilton North Dakota. Was fortunate enough to get on pre pile and get some hours under my belt but it's gonna be hard work for weeks straight!
THANK GOD these people who produce and process Sugar Beets.GOD BLESS AMERICA
Your god has nothing to do with it.
@@mmm365 Poisonous mate.... poisonous. Might want to get that spell check looked at mate.
We worked the harvest last year and leave in a week to do it again this year! It is an exciting event we would not miss ☺️
There are a few things that i didn't know existed, this is pretty cool
THE MORE YOU KNOW huh...
Beet harvesting used to ba massive crop over here in Ireland, big business saw to the closing of local Beet factories across the country. It used to bring a lot of short term highly paid employment for about 5 mths to a lot of people..
I learn something new everyday.
me too 🙂
I just hauled my first load of Sugar Beets for Renville MN, Friday to start the 2020 Beet Campaign.
Love American Farmers!
My hat’s off to all these hard working farmers doing their part to keep the shelves at our local grocery stores stocked with food, and that local restaurants never have a shortage of fresh ingredients.
Thank you for posting this video, so informative; never knew of involved the process is. Now I know how sugar is derived from beets. I grew up in New York City and never realized sugar comes from beefs. I love my sugar and love it even more now knowing how hard you guys work to bring sugar to my table! Thanks so much!
Would be my third year working the harvest! Now and it's better than what It seems
Fascinating stuff. Thank you for making this video!
I remember one season about 15 years ago in Michigan. There was a warm winter and the beets in the piles started to rot. They had to haul them all back to the fields and plow them back into the ground. Complete loss.
Nutrients for the land
Thank you for your hard work! USA finest.
Excellent program....watching from Auckland New Zealand, South Pacific
Good bless America
Sugar beets were brought from Germany to the Volga region of Russia by Germans. Many of them then came to the U.S. and brought their Sugar Beets. Also, Germans brought their sugar beets into the areas along the Danube region of Europe. We had vast areas of eastern Colorado where sugar beets were planted.
Germany ran their tanks on sugar beets and potatoes during WW1
I love watching my cousins harvest sugar beets in michigan.
I love watching others work period..
Lots of lovely American sugar. Love it! Thanks for the vid.
Great video. I knew that sugar beets were big in Minnesota, but it's hard to understand the scope of the harvest without seeing it. Thank you.
its big in north Dakota as well
Hello Cynthia......
I miss sugar beet harvest here in Southern Manitoba!
This was great and thanks for sharing.
It's great to see Dwight Schrute doing so well.
Wasn’t his farm in penn state. Dwight explain why you left all the Franco German farmers for the dry hills of North Dakota.
Hi I worked he in Ireland with irish sugar company it closed down in 2007 with the loss of over 1200 jobs we had 4 sugar factory’s here at one time since 1925 we now import all our sugar from EU one of the greatest losses to Ireland
Funny so did I .Went from harvesting it by hand to full automation The closing of the sugar beet industry in Ireland was another of those great Irish scandals, or they called it progress We gave it away in the late eighties when the Quotas started to take effect and headed for Western Australia Had a look at the sugar cane in Oz interesting
Interesting video. I'm actually sitting in a loader as I type this a the Western Sugar factory in Billings, MT. Only have 4 more days til all the beets piles have been hauled off.
Are you still alive???
@@Calv-tb1bx it wasn't that long ago
Funny comment though
Am I ever gonna get my 2 lumps for my coffee? Been waiting forever niow
When I was a kid in Northern California we had a sugar plant in the town I lived in, the Southern Pacific would bring train loads of beets to the plant.
came for the beets, stayed for the gardner
Well produced- tks
One of the best jobs I had in my 20's was working for GW Sugar in Fremont, Ohio. I started out as the grunt with a 10 ft pitchfork cleaning the water recycle grate. After the beets were washed they took a four floor ride up to the picking table and I had to shovel out the chip pit. Then I got moved to the forth floor picking table where we had to remove debris like rocks and frogs. Then I got moved to the precoke ovens where I got to run a Bobcat and load chips keeping the rail line clear and the warehouse in check. Finally I got promoted to the production line to monitor moisture of the final product. At times it was a cold brutal job. The beats came in the fall but we were processing into early winter. Till this day I curse GW from pulling out and killing the sugar beat industry in north central Ohio. The same curse is bestowed on the pickle producers and especially Heinze who killed our tomatoe production and only processes crap brought in by rail car from Cali.
John Kerry is a dirt bag.
In Russia amd Belarus during 80s they made sugar out lf these beets. Not sure about now but i wprked passed grand forks in ND at one ACS factory... Interesting process
Dwight clearly oversees this entire operation.
Good Organization ,Good Management .
Hello from french farmers! 💬 👓it's sugar beets harvesting in my country too! America is really amazing!
the sand is black ?! in my country the sand is white limestone for sugar beets harvest. Nice work ! we are little farmers and you have some dream engines 👓
🥂🍾🍷🍇𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭 from la FRANCE 𝓒ⒽⒶ𝓜ⓟ𝓐𝓰𝓝𝓔 𝓢Ⓨ𝓛𝓥𝓘𝓔 🍾🍷🍇
Hello Champagne......
@@fredjohn6064 hi
@@champagnesylvie-lavieenfra1378 I'm fine thanks and you, and I hope family and friends are all safe and sound over there?
Amazing.
Good video for every person in the USA to see. People need to see how business is being effected. Many people think your company can just close the doors and turn off the lights for 90 to 120 days. Comeback and pick up. But that is not true every industry needs to make a video like this. My question as a city boy that knows nothing from nothing is, can’t these beets be ground and used in hog feed, put out as supplemental feed for wild life in the burned out forests?
Very informative, didn realise that so much beet was grown in the US.
Lets not grow our food in labs, lets support our local farmers!
Very interesting, Thank you
Wonderful story.
they taste so good if you eat them just of the land, they taste like very sweet potatoes
Yup chew em up and spit out the pulp
Watching this with the CC turned on and it was a tossup between my disgust at Monsanto vs my desire to learn something.
Nice!
This was recommended to me and I live on the other side of the planet(Australia) and have nothing to do with agriculture(sparky) but I actually enjoyed it!
Those beets are really small. Of course, i'm from another country, Belgium, but we are a tiny country... yet we make lots of sugar for worldwide consumption. And we're also known for beer production. But about the beets, it all has to do about soil, and humidity. It's funny to see commercials in the US about our sugar. And our beers. Our country is probably as big as... New York?! So we are tiny. But we do make very nice, great products. You're working on enormous scale. We do the same, but a lot smaller. So we're more intense. It has to be perfect. I'm coming over, soon. I want to come fishing, as a holiday. Must be great in Florida! Take care!
To drop some sick beats, you gotta know how to grow em first
@Benaiah Ahmadinejad shut up perv.
19:15 They sure do give you a nice side of Fries in Minnesota !!!
I did beet harvest for 5 years some days i worked 16+ with out stopping over 130 hours in 7 days you get hungry
What I found interesting is calories. In my local Wally mart, Domino cain sugar is 15 cal per serving. Great Value sugar, from sugar beats is 30 cal per serving.
100% Sucrose contains 16 calories per teaspoon, doesn't matter if it's from cane sugar or sugar beets.
@@dundonrl thanks for setting them straight
if the documentary wasnt made by city ppl it woulda been alot better
I just love this title song....
Your doing a great Job Bro. Mark. Miss you and will be glad when you get back Home
thank you - appreciate this video and learned alot .
had no idea there was such a thing called sugar beet - thought all sugar came from sugar cane.
good honest work!!!
i agree 100%!! i sware city ppl dont think befor thay talk . its like wtf u thinks ganna happen if the equipment brakes down!
Great video!
A note in the hardware store?? Really? I grew up around farms and that definitely didn't happen, but I guess it's the perfect target audience.
So funny, old school and awesome!
I live in sugar beet Country and it most certainly does happen.
Hey he was being proactive in looking for work and it's a good way to work locally.
Most people don’t remember about the Huge Sugar Beet Plant in Hereford, Texas .. called Holly Sugar
Sugar beets used to be a thing onthe Estern Colradio and th Kansas High Plains. The sugar processing plant atGoodlan, KS was converte to process Sunflowers. I'm not sure what's going on pothrt now.Irrigated corc with cattle production to send to the feedlots, I suppose
My husband works the E G F factory.
i drive past there like 20 times a year i love mn
I'm addicted to sugar beets. Thank god these drug dealers help provide this drug to the world.
Michigan is where the Sugar Beets are!
Sugarcane Sugar is sweeter than beats. Huge difference.
Excellent reporting. .. Excellent vid... ! Thanks! Gordon in Maui
Gordon McCoy Yes. It is excellent reporting. Old boy.
time, that's the limiting factor. if you did as you state, you would need to harvest and then unload in different stages, cutting your production by half or more, making it cost more in the long run. it's faster and more efficient to have that truck be able to take off immediately and be replaced by another one immediately after instead of harvesting, stopping, unloading and harvesting again, it doesn't work with bulky crops like sugar beets.
Good video really enjoyed it.
Are the leaves used as fertilizer for next years crop? OR are they used as animal feed? Can the sugar beet be eaten as is or only good for sugar purposes?
we'd eat it raw, it's crunchy like a carrot but the pulp can be difficult to swallow
Amazing technology
beets are the #1 item harvested when it come to sugar
The city of Hillsboro that is mentioned is Hillsboro, North Dakota
The beets are sliced into French fries sized pieces and then subject to hot water to get the suger inside. That sugar or sucrose gets purified, evaporated, filtered, and then sent to centrifuge, finally we get suger.
I bet it tastes really good fresh
Your closed captioning is off by several minutes
Underneath the video, just to the right of save are three dots. Click that, then select report, and finally captions issues at the bottom.
I would recommend reading the book Nomads land . It paints quite a different picture than what this video is showing .
Leftist anti-science anti-industry filth.
@Santina Murphy HAHAHAAA oh sh!t that is funny
interesting to see how different the American sugar beet harvest procedure is compared to Europes
hausaffe
What is the difference, I am interested.
Philly 737 here beats are usually harvested by selfdriving machines wich include the head cutter and than piled on the headland. When the sugar company needs beats they send out a special loading machine called "rübenmaus" (beat mice (because all the 🐁 &🐹 running away)) wich will clean the beats from soil and load them on to trucks
hausaffe
Cool, thanks for replying too !
Very cool.
Sadly beet and super cane are very natural sugars but when they use the chemical process it becomes HIGHLY detrimental to people
What "chemical process" are y'all talking about? Over here in Germany, the sugar is cooked out of the chopped beets into a syrup, which then is boiled to evaporate excess water and form sugar crystals. Those are centrifuge'd out of the syrup to get the white crystal sugar. Don't know if you're doing it differently across the pond but to me, there is nothing on the processing side that turns the sugar unhealthy.
Love sugar beets
If the tractor is pulling it, then it is NOT a self propelled harvester. The tractor is propelling it. Didn't you ever see a Holmer or a Dewulf self prop. harvester? There are vids on YT.
Not a single word about government sugar beet subsidy? This is just a crystal sugar infomercial.
You do realize the subsidies supply you with cheap food right?
Cheap sugar and higher taxes. What a trade off.
@@markdavidson9720 a overly simplified view.
some machines,its like wow,in siberia they make alcohol from these beets,sure brings memories.............
Nice
very interesting! thx for post!
I did this by hand as a child
God I love that red paint
Very Good. Pl let us know the SUGAR yield/out put per one ton of SUGAR BEATS, Sweetness is equalent to sugar cane sugar or any thing less. Also which sugar is good for health...
S S Rao
Sanyasirao Senapathi Sugar beet yields have ranged from a low of 18.6 short tons per acre in fiscal year (FY) 1993 to an average of 28.8 tons per acre in FYs 2014-16. The number of farms growing sugarcane and sugar beets declined from 2007 to 2012, but the average area harvested per farm increased, the beet itself has about 18-22% sugar content
Does not make much of a difference. Metabolized the same is my understanding.,
Can you cook with sugar beats? Can it be eaten raw with salad?
bad for teeth