Sugar beet harvest

The massive field of sugar beet at the end of our garden is being harvested this week.



Massive machines - very specialised and complex.

This trundles by. The two tractors and trailers join in to take away the big lumpy beets. Then comes a big tractor with caterpillar treads and a very big plough to immediately turn over the field. Then comes an another tractor with a complex harrow preparing the earth for its next crop. I am just a little disappointed they are not leaving the beet stalks for the migrating Brent Geese  - but this farm does not seem to be part of that wildlife scheme.

At 6 pm they are still at it, in the dark, with all the lights on looking like a moving town scape, and they seem to have done a quarter of the field.  Back tomorrow by 8 am.  We are fascinated.

We are going to walk up the road to see how big the storage heap is going to be. Because over the next two months its all going to be loaded into road lorry conveys which will go right past the front of out house on its way to the sugar factory.

I hope all you readers are supporting this whole industry and buying British grown sugar!