date:Oct 30, 2012
rubber flails, and scalping off the top of the beets.
Then, the harvester comes, with a truck driving parallel to store all the sugar beets. It takes about 20 people total to harvest the root vegetable.
Each truck takes its load to the beet dump on Munn's farm, where beets are piled to store until a semi comes to truck them to Idaho. By the time harvest is complete, Munn estimates his 25-foot-tall pile will be about 200 yards long.
Munn said he only knows of three farms, including his own, t