TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 1971///
TI  - Sugar Beet Plot Harvester
A1  - Ruffing, B.J.
A1  - Heinemann, W.H.
SP  - 12
EP  - 13
IS  - 1
VL  - 14
N2  - 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.
JF  - Transaction of the ASAE
AV  - public
UR  - https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/82/
ID  - nwisrl82
ER  -