2014-11-182014-11-181973https://hdl.handle.net/10365/24347This 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.North Dakota State UniversityArticle