Another Use for an Old Machine: Sugar Beet Plot Harvester
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1973
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This is a description of the design processes to create Expanded research with sugar beets at NDSU created a laborsome, time-consuming harvest problem. In the plots, beets were dug with a blade-type lifter, then topped, cleaned and weighed by hand. Machines, including a modified carrot digger and conventional field machines, were tried and discarded for various reasons.