eprintid: 82
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2010-11-20 21:49:56
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creators_name: Ruffing, B.J.
creators_name: Heinemann, W.H.
title: Sugar Beet Plot Harvester
ispublished: pub
subjects: irrsugarbeet
subjects: autoclass
divisions: d_unclass
abstract: 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
date_type: published
id_number: 0149
full_text_status: public
publication: Transaction of the ASAE
volume: 14
number: 1
pagerange: 12-13
refereed: unknown
citation:   Ruffing, B.J. and Heinemann, W.H.  (1971) Sugar Beet Plot Harvester.   Transaction of the ASAE.      14(1):12-13.               
document_url: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/82/1/149.pdf