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

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

Fond memories from more simpler times

@dakotaboy80

2 жыл бұрын

That same factory is still running in Crookston, MN for American Crystal Sugar.

@GratefulOverlander

2 жыл бұрын

That was his Uncle

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

Thank you Farmers . for taking care of us .

Thank you to all the farmers in America. May THE LORD truly bless you all Amen.

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

@tonysolar284

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support in the drug trade. It keeps my sugar addiction intact.

@TheWizardGamez

3 жыл бұрын

didn't know sugar beets could be grown in a near desert enviornment

@amannybon

2 жыл бұрын

Howdy Jaime De LA G...good to know that You still have fond memories of the Harvesting. Sincerely, Manny (Almaguer) ß.

Kinda like being in the military 🎖️ You guys are the BOMB 💥💥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍

THANK GOD these people who produce and process Sugar Beets.GOD BLESS AMERICA

@ShainAndrews

4 жыл бұрын

Your god has nothing to do with it.

@ShainAndrews

4 жыл бұрын

@@mmm365 Poisonous mate.... poisonous. Might want to get that spell check looked at mate.

My wife and I are working the sugar beet Harvest for the first time this year really looking forward to it

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,

My good lord you guys are hardworking. Loved watching the process.

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...

My family bought the first ROPAs in the United States and we’re all proud sugar farmers up here in Michigan

Fascinating stuff. Thank you for making this video!

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 your hard work! USA finest.

I learn something new everyday.

@mind9528

3 жыл бұрын

me too 🙂

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 ☺️

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.

@jibblesq

2 жыл бұрын

Lime? You sure it wasn't soda ash?

Lots of lovely American sugar. Love it! Thanks for the vid.

Farmers in America feeds The 🌎.the equipment and land is amazing.and God bless you losing sleep 😴🇺🇲💯👍

It's great to see Dwight Schrute doing so well.

@TheWizardGamez

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t his farm in penn state. Dwight explain why you left all the Franco German farmers for the dry hills of North Dakota.

I love watching my cousins harvest sugar beets in michigan.

@acgillespie

3 жыл бұрын

I love watching others work period..

I just hauled my first load of Sugar Beets for Renville MN, Friday to start the 2020 Beet Campaign.

This was great and thanks for sharing.

Running a combine is a bucket list item for me.

good honest work!!!

Wonderful story.

There are a few things that i didn't know existed, this is pretty cool THE MORE YOU KNOW huh...

Good Organization ,Good Management .

Excellent program....watching from Auckland New Zealand, South Pacific

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.

Good bless America

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!

very interesting! thx for post!

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!

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.

@dapperdingo

4 жыл бұрын

John Kerry is a dirt bag.

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.

@nevets4190

4 жыл бұрын

its big in north Dakota as well

@fredjohn6064

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Cynthia......

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.

@Calv-tb1bx

4 жыл бұрын

Are you still alive???

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

@@Calv-tb1bx it wasn't that long ago Funny comment though

@acgillespie

3 жыл бұрын

Am I ever gonna get my 2 lumps for my coffee? Been waiting forever niow

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.

@mra95662

Жыл бұрын

Germany ran their tanks on sugar beets and potatoes during WW1

Would be my third year working the harvest! Now and it's better than what It seems

Excellent reporting. .. Excellent vid... ! Thanks! Gordon in Maui

@garlandremingtoniii4679

6 жыл бұрын

Gordon McCoy Yes. It is excellent reporting. Old boy.

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

@paddymickiemickie8221

4 жыл бұрын

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

Good video really enjoyed it.

Very interesting, Thank you

great vid,thx guys

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.

@acgillespie

3 жыл бұрын

Nutrients for the land

Amazing technology

Amazing.

Well produced- tks

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..

Great video!

Very informative, didn realise that so much beet was grown in the US.

I miss sugar beet harvest here in Southern Manitoba!

i drive past there like 20 times a year i love mn

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

I just love this title song....

Dwight clearly oversees this entire operation.

19:15 They sure do give you a nice side of Fries in Minnesota !!!

@nevets4190

5 жыл бұрын

I did beet harvest for 5 years some days i worked 16+ with out stopping over 130 hours in 7 days you get hungry

they taste so good if you eat them just of the land, they taste like very sweet potatoes

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

Yup chew em up and spit out the pulp

Lets not grow our food in labs, lets support our local farmers!

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.

Very cool.

Sugarcane Sugar is sweeter than beats. Huge difference.

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!

good job

came for the beets, stayed for the gardner

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

Michigan is where the Sugar Beets are!

To drop some sick beats, you gotta know how to grow em first

@Calv-tb1bx

4 жыл бұрын

@Benaiah Ahmadinejad shut up perv.

Your doing a great Job Bro. Mark. Miss you and will be glad when you get back Home

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!

God I love that red paint

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 🍾🍷🍇

@fredjohn6064

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Champagne......

@champagnesylvie-lavieenfra1378

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredjohn6064 hi

@fredjohn6064

2 жыл бұрын

@@champagnesylvie-lavieenfra1378 I'm fine thanks and you, and I hope family and friends are all safe and sound over there?

More than one suger lane street in Houston good I leaning toward you so much about it yet

I'm addicted to sugar beets. Thank god these drug dealers help provide this drug to the world.

if the documentary wasnt made by city ppl it woulda been alot better

beets are the #1 item harvested when it come to sugar

Great deer bait too!!

@samsquanchoutdoors5872

4 жыл бұрын

Should see them around the piles

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

Try apple's and carrots

Love sugar beets

@13craj Thanks for the explanation. So you're a beet farmer? That's cool.

some machines,its like wow,in siberia they make alcohol from these beets,sure brings memories.............

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.

@dundonrl

4 жыл бұрын

100% Sucrose contains 16 calories per teaspoon, doesn't matter if it's from cane sugar or sugar beets.

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

@@dundonrl thanks for setting them straight

My husband works the E G F factory.

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?

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.

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

I bet it tastes really good fresh

You should try some sugar beets. There soooo good!

i watch this show stoned, very relaxing

Watching this with the CC turned on and it was a tossup between my disgust at Monsanto vs my desire to learn something.

i agree 100%!! i sware city ppl dont think befor thay talk . its like wtf u thinks ganna happen if the equipment brakes down!

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!

@steveeab2364

2 жыл бұрын

I live in sugar beet Country and it most certainly does happen.

@markfryer9880

2 жыл бұрын

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

The city of Hillsboro that is mentioned is Hillsboro, North Dakota

I did this by hand as a child

You r asome

Nice

@TheNovemberPapa and not to mention the" how important this machine to you?"

interesting to see how different the American sugar beet harvest procedure is compared to Europes

@phillipgraham1422

6 жыл бұрын

hausaffe What is the difference, I am interested.

@hausaffe100

6 жыл бұрын

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

@phillipgraham1422

6 жыл бұрын

hausaffe Cool, thanks for replying too !

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.

I would recommend reading the book Nomads land . It paints quite a different picture than what this video is showing .

@karozans

5 жыл бұрын

Leftist anti-science anti-industry filth.

@rickcruz3382

3 жыл бұрын

@Santina Murphy HAHAHAAA oh sh!t that is funny