Hi from Missouri! I found your channel yesterday and watched a couple of episodes. I don't farm, and I've learned a lot from you already. I didn't know where pinto beans or sugar beats were grown or how they were harvested. The drone shots are amazing. I've never been to ND so I'm seeing it for the first time.
Hey 10th Generation Dairyman, I appreciate the comment! I know little about the day to day life of a Dairyman so it works out 😉 Thanks for the video work you do as well!
Just found your site. I have traveled up the Red River Valley for about 70 years. I have seen the piles of beets but never a harvester so that was very interesting. My things has been harvesting wild rice about 600 miles northwest of you. I watch harvesting and drive a grain hauling boat. Usually I would be heading down I-29 today for home in Ohio but Covid has kept us out of Canada for two summers. Pretty bummed out about that situation as at 79 you can't count on too many more years of harvesting and travel. Have a safe and prosperous harvest.
things have changed a lot since the 60s when my dad grew sugar beets about 40 miles south of Chicago, hauling them with a couple 2 axel trucks that didn't go more than 45 miles per hour. They had to go about 15 miles to what was called a sugar beet dump where them were loaded onto train cars and yes he would get his dirt back. A lot of time spent waiting to unload and often waiting for more train cars.
Fascinating, and I know nothing about beets- in fact I don't even like beets. Farming is amazing with the machinery that has been developed. I wonder what a farmer from 100 years ago would think. Incidentally, how do you handle rocks?
Hey Le Chandler, Rocks usually aren’t an issue in the fields we farm. One will occasionally find a rock, but they aren’t very common. Although we did have a small rock get jammed in the beet harvester last year.
Hey mitch some of those trucks looked familiar. I worked up there from 2009 to 2019. I've hauled to ardoch, Oslo and East grand forks. That looked like Voss piler station. Planted alot of those fields around there along with anhydrous in the fall. Coming up next week. Will be hauling Into east grand this year from out mekinock area and Gilby area
Great video Mitch, I used to live up near ND. I was in the SE corner of Montana but I have been to North Dakota a bunch of times. I knew that there was a lot of beet harvest up there but I didn't know anything about the pinto beans. Anyway Great video and God bless
I am new to this chennel and i love it i am from México and i work one year in canada driven truck for potedos and i wod love work ther agien for harvest or in the dakoda.
My in-laws grow beets in St. Thomas, ND. Where in ND are you farming? My family farms near Portland, ND, between Grand Forks and Fargo, so it was tremendously fun watching your video. Thank you very much.
Mitch, when you bite into the sugar beet when it is plucked from the ground (and we know you do), is it very sweet? Or does the processing bring out the sugary sweet flavor. My knowledge of sugar beet farming is the same as dairy farming. Milk comes from the large cooler in the back of the store. And just so you know, you explain things very well...easy to understand. Appreciate that!
Hahaha, it does taste incredibly sweet! It is about 16% sucrose so basically 16% sugar and it taste like a sweet vegetable. It’s fun to go by the factories when they are processing beets because at certain times you can smell a “warm sugar” scent wafting around the factory. I can smell it when we dig them out of the ground too but that’s more of a geosmin (soil) and sweet scent.
@@beetfarminmitch Thanks...and next you will be doing a video of you kneeling one the ground sniffing the dirt. You area true farmer!! Glad you're out there!!
Hi Mitch , how do I get in touch with you or who does the driver hiring? I’m looking to be part of the harvest as a driver. I have done dairy delivery to stores 16 plus hour days in the north east as of late I was driving cat745/740s in Oklahoma in the sand fracking industry
Yes that right! The split beans are typically made into refried beans or some other product that requires non-whole beans. The companies try to utilize all the good beans for some purposes.
I'm currently in Drayton for the harvest, I'm working at the Kennedy site. Seems like it's going to be another few days before it gets cool enough to start the main harvest. Love the drone shots by the way, I've been getting some good footage with my mavic 2 zoom, what were you using?
Well we of course have weight regulations for hauling on the highway and whatnot. We have a limited number of trucks we can haul with according to grower size so that the pilars don’t get overwhelmed with trucks. We don’t necessarily have axle limits. I see guys haul with quad and quints on a straight truck (not a semi).
So here go. I just watched a video that said it needed to be under 55oF for beets to keep in the pile. You dump a day's worth of beets and it is 50o then for the next two weeks there is a hot spell and the pile starts going bad and the sugar % is going down. Who stands the loss; you or the company?
That’s a great question! Both of us in a sense. If the company (owned by the farmers) decides to store beets and it will be hot. Then the company makes less sugar which in turn causes all of the farmers to get paid less per ton at the end of the year.
Found your channel a few weeks ago and just realized how many subs you have. I would’ve been commenting earlier to help you out. Just don’t sell out like most agtubers in the states and have every video about one product or another. We want to see work not your newest paycheck and free stuff
I’m a corn, soybean farmer but this is all new to me. Great video
Great video, Mitch! Thanks for sharing so much about the harvesting process for sugar beets. I learned a lot.
You are a great role model for young people.
Hi from Missouri! I found your channel yesterday and watched a couple of episodes. I don't farm, and I've learned a lot from you already. I didn't know where pinto beans or sugar beats were grown or how they were harvested. The drone shots are amazing. I've never been to ND so I'm seeing it for the first time.
Hey man, interesting video. I know nothing about farming beets. Looks like a really satisfying crop to harvest.
Hey 10th Generation Dairyman, I appreciate the comment! I know little about the day to day life of a Dairyman so it works out 😉
Thanks for the video work you do as well!
very interesting well done video. I liked the drone shots of the piler. Say hi for me, to your new crew.
Just found your site. I have traveled up the Red River Valley for about 70 years. I have seen the piles of beets but never a harvester so that was very interesting. My things has been harvesting wild rice about 600 miles northwest of you. I watch harvesting and drive a grain hauling boat. Usually I would be heading down I-29 today for home in Ohio but Covid has kept us out of Canada for two summers. Pretty bummed out about that situation as at 79 you can't count on too many more years of harvesting and travel. Have a safe and prosperous harvest.
The farmer I'm working for runs five semis 24/7, we haul to the Crookston plant. Just waiting on the weather right now...
things have changed a lot since the 60s when my dad grew sugar beets about 40 miles south of Chicago, hauling them with a couple 2 axel trucks that didn't go more than 45 miles per hour. They had to go about 15 miles to what was called a sugar beet dump where them were loaded onto train cars and yes he would get his dirt back. A lot of time spent waiting to unload and often waiting for more train cars.
Now I know the rest of the story. God bless you Mitch! Thank you!
Very nice I have always heard of sugar beets but never seen them harvested.
Fascinating, and I know nothing about beets- in fact I don't even like beets. Farming is amazing with the machinery that has been developed. I wonder what a farmer from 100 years ago would think. Incidentally, how do you handle rocks?
Hey Le Chandler,
Rocks usually aren’t an issue in the fields we farm. One will occasionally find a rock, but they aren’t very common. Although we did have a small rock get jammed in the beet harvester last year.
@@beetfarminmitch Thanks for the information. As a kid I worked one summer for a farmer in Pennsylvania, and hated rock picking.
Hey mitch some of those trucks looked familiar. I worked up there from 2009 to 2019. I've hauled to ardoch, Oslo and East grand forks. That looked like Voss piler station. Planted alot of those fields around there along with anhydrous in the fall. Coming up next week. Will be hauling Into east grand this year from out mekinock area and Gilby area
Yup it’s Voss! Fun to know you are familiar with the area!
@@beetfarminmitch yeah I worked for Craig nice custom planting in the spring and anhydrous in the fall.
Another great video ....love the drone shots as well.
Well done video...subbed!!! Keep up the good work!
Great video Mitch, I used to live up near ND. I was in the SE corner of Montana but I have been to North Dakota a bunch of times. I knew that there was a lot of beet harvest up there but I didn't know anything about the pinto beans. Anyway Great video and God bless
I am new to this chennel and i love it i am from México and i work one year in canada driven truck for potedos and i wod love work ther agien for harvest or in the dakoda.
Thanks West Farming! I’m glad you enjoy the channel and can relate to it very closely!
Thankyou Farmers!!!!!!....Nice video...appreciate all of the explanations
My in-laws grow beets in St. Thomas, ND. Where in ND are you farming? My family farms near Portland, ND, between Grand Forks and Fargo, so it was tremendously fun watching your video. Thank you very much.
Bonjour superbe vidéo ? Un bonjour de la france
Mitch, when you bite into the sugar beet when it is plucked from the ground (and we know you do), is it very sweet? Or does the processing bring out the sugary sweet flavor. My knowledge of sugar beet farming is the same as dairy farming. Milk comes from the large cooler in the back of the store. And just so you know, you explain things very well...easy to understand. Appreciate that!
Hahaha, it does taste incredibly sweet! It is about 16% sucrose so basically 16% sugar and it taste like a sweet vegetable.
It’s fun to go by the factories when they are processing beets because at certain times you can smell a “warm sugar” scent wafting around the factory. I can smell it when we dig them out of the ground too but that’s more of a geosmin (soil) and sweet scent.
@@beetfarminmitch Thanks...and next you will be doing a video of you kneeling one the ground sniffing the dirt. You area true farmer!! Glad you're out there!!
I like how you say where milks come from
Hi Mitch , how do I get in touch with you or who does the driver hiring? I’m looking to be part of the harvest as a driver. I have done dairy delivery to stores 16 plus hour days in the north east as of late I was driving cat745/740s in Oklahoma in the sand fracking industry
Toda la raza en la cosecha! ¿ Cómo procesan la remolacha?
So I am a little familiar with video production and it takes a good bit of time, when do you sleep??? LOL
Hey I work for transystem!!
Hope its a dry harvest for you, unlike 2019. That was a sumbitch to get through!
This is so interesting!
Have you tried to French Fry sugar beets ?
Will we get a plant tour.
Hahahah! I haven’t. I had a friend who made syrup out of them once though.
That’s a great idea! I’m not sure. There’s a possibility
I baked a sugar beet like a potato once, it didn't work. We had to open all the windows to get the rotten smell out of the house.
What's on top of your business band radio? That tube looking thing.
Ahhh yes that’s a 12v plug in. The main one on the truck is fried so someone Jimmied a new one in the truck and it’s power is drawing through the CB.
@@beetfarminmitch looked like a shift light almost!
Where are you located? I am from Grafton and grew up on farm between Grafton and Hoople. My nephew and brother now run the farm.
Yes that right! The split beans are typically made into refried beans or some other product that requires non-whole beans. The companies try to utilize all the good beans for some purposes.
I'm currently in Drayton for the harvest, I'm working at the Kennedy site. Seems like it's going to be another few days before it gets cool enough to start the main harvest. Love the drone shots by the way, I've been getting some good footage with my mavic 2 zoom, what were you using?
DJI Mavic Air!
I get how the preservation works but why oct 1st ? just curious why thats an arbitrary date
Do you guys have axle limits when it comes to main harvest?
Well we of course have weight regulations for hauling on the highway and whatnot. We have a limited number of trucks we can haul with according to grower size so that the pilars don’t get overwhelmed with trucks. We don’t necessarily have axle limits. I see guys haul with quad and quints on a straight truck (not a semi).
@@beetfarminmitch makes sense, for us we are only allowed 7 axles
Hi a question. do you have to get a CDL to haul inside the farm? tks
For farm use, no.
WHAT PILER YOU Hauling too??????
Voss!
I wish I could find a farmer to teach me. I am obsessed with farming. This is my wife account lolol
So here go. I just watched a video that said it needed to be under 55oF for beets to keep in the pile. You dump a day's worth of beets and it is 50o then for the next two weeks there is a hot spell and the pile starts going bad and the sugar % is going down. Who stands the loss; you or the company?
That’s a great question! Both of us in a sense. If the company (owned by the farmers) decides to store beets and it will be hot. Then the company makes less sugar which in turn causes all of the farmers to get paid less per ton at the end of the year.
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Found your channel a few weeks ago and just realized how many subs you have. I would’ve been commenting earlier to help you out. Just don’t sell out like most agtubers in the states and have every video about one product or another. We want to see work not your newest paycheck and free stuff
grafton ro st.thomas piler?