relation: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/82/
title: Sugar Beet Plot Harvester
creator: Ruffing, B.J.
creator: Heinemann, W.H.
subject: Sugarbeet
subject: Mass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)
description: SUGAR beet companies, state experiment stations, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service use replicated plots to evaluate sugar beet yields as influenced by varieties, fertilizers, water-management practices, etc. As a result, many people need some type of sugar-beet, plot-harvesting equipment. Plots frequently are up to 50 ft in length from which two to eight rows may be harvested. Harvesting sugar-beet plots by hand involves a great deal of manual labor. Beets are first undercut, then pulled and topped by hand, piled in the center of the plot, counted as they are placed in a wire basket, and lifted by hand to a scale for weighing. This method is slow and expensive.
date: 1971
type: Article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/82/1/149.pdf
identifier:   Ruffing, B.J. and Heinemann, W.H.  (1971) Sugar Beet Plot Harvester.   Transaction of the ASAE.      14(1):12-13.               
relation: 0149
identifier: 0149