Bernia Family Farms, Inc Sugar Beet Harvest 2016

Sugar Beet Harvest 2016 - Akron, Michigan

[@sarah_farm]

I just cant believe how they have access to just such a large variety of fruits , trees and plants. Feels like they live in paradise. Fresh produce right on their door step , surrounded by nature and enjoyed together in a close knit family and community! All the money in the world cant buy what they have.

[@bearcat8691]

What a great video! Excellent videography! That is a LOT of sugar beets! Congratulations!

[@robbrent]

Some of the best drone footage I’ve ever seen, stunning👏👏

[@keithgilham9438]

Awesome vid.... loved seeing the quadtrac helping tow those semis out...

[@cibie01]

Stunning video loved every second of that.

[@petermiller5701]

I helped harvest sugar beets in Southern Alberta, near Taber in 1959-60. The thinning, and hoeing, was all hand labor. So was topping the beets. The tops were chopped off with a big long knife, and the beets were thrown into a trench, about six feet wide, and a bout six inches, or so, deep. Then, a machine, that resembled a pickup/ conveyor combination, picked the beets up and loaded them onto trucks which hauled them to the processing plant, near Taber. It involved many long, long days, of back breaking labor.

[@kentweible9463]

Love your videos , keep them coming 👍

[@Dronemaarlekkerverder]

Great video, i liked the way you filmed it, my compliments (Martin, The Netherlands)

[@jrbpa5775]

Thanks for great video, never seen sugar beets harvested.

[@christopherlovelock9104]

Look at 'Landtechnick.MV. he has ones with the latest equipment on.

[@jarek7211]

Thanks for great video, love it!

[@julesd2051]

just beautiful those machines I used to pull them by hand with a lillte pic forch in Belgium in 1953 \

[@bogoto247]

This is a far cry from harvesting beets back in the fifties in Idaho. We had a beater with foot long inch square rubber to remove the tops and a two row lifter to get them out of the ground.

[@geried.]

Very good recordings ...... great!

[@jamesrivis620]

Awesome vid. I guess the tops just get shredded and ploughed under later ? You'd think that it would make for good composting. I wonder how many tons you harvested this day ? During the war sugar beets was the only sugar we had in the UK.

[@WJack97224]

@James Rivis, Beet greens are excellent eating but don't know if the cost of harvesting, transporting and canning is economical.

[@MIhandyman]

This is cool. My boss love watching the tractors go by our house. We live right off of 81 in Reese, so they probably saw these beets go by.

[@mattbnez]

Every year my father grew 50 acres . Just 50 acres because if he grew 51 he would not get the bonus of not growing them. This was during the 50's to the early 70's. If I remember right it was $13 to $14 a ton with the government paying about $3.50 a ton for not growing them. Our harvester did 1 row at a time. Thinning, weeding and irrigating them summer after summer until I got drafted. I HATED SUGAR BEETS. But after I got drafted I developed a strong desire for the fields.

[@bohhica1]

Great videos, working together and making a job a way of life. Keep up the great work! Also, good music.👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@johanun]

Would love to see this when it is rainy weather :)

[@claesmansson9070]

Then go watch some of Tractorspotters vids,corn with feet in water getting harvested f.i.

[@EZ570]

Wow, what unbelievable productivity! American farmers feeding the world at very low cost.

[@deepdiver4369]

EZ570 American farmers feeding the world!!! Large acreage piss poor acre per ton return. Big ground big tractor big mouths.

[@TractorCambodia]

Great work

[@jameswhelan8754]

Does the harvester fold into a road position? I haven't seen one like it, it's a brilliant set up!

[@kenproctor6776]

The unloading elevator folds down for road travel.

[@Chisszaru]

I can actually think to work on a farm in the size of an american farm as a driver but the only problem is that i have not yet driving licence for tractors and i do also live in Sweden who is on the other side of the Atlantic ocean

[@robsteves573]

Great vid. Never seen this before due to living in New York , so what is the purpose of the first machine? The one that looks like a giant lawn mower? Thanks and keep up the great vids

[@jberg440]

The first machine is a defoliator. It removes the beet tops and leafs as only the below ground beet is harvested.

[@robsteves573]

jberg440 ok thanks now it makes more sense.

[@TymonMasa]

how many pounds pounds to accommodate this semitrailer ??

[@oliviertessier2308]

Very good work. Qualité vidéo. Very nice musical. Wich musical ?

[@haroun8332]

Does anyone knows how much approximately the surface of this field could be? I'm very interested to know that + how much tonnes these trucks could be loaded?

[@dereks4497]

25-30 ton on the big cart. Not enough info to know field size

[@crazytrucker9526]

i grew up in pigeon,Michigan

[@WJack97224]

What is the approximate worth of one of those semi-truck trailer loads of beets worth? Great video. Thanks. Good on ya mates.

[@dereks4497]

700

[@WJack97224]

​@@@dereks4497, Thanks. Hard to believe a farmer can make a go of it when the costs of operations are taken into account. Near as I can find, sugar beet prices are about 48USD/short ton. So, 700/48 = 14.6 tons/truck load or about 29,167 lbs. So, at 700/truck load, I should think the farmer would need at least 200 truck loads to meet expenses and earn a decent living. Are my estimates way off? What say you?

[@dereks4497]

@@WJack97224 well we can get about 25-30 ton into a semi. Prices this year tanked. Pay you ended up being 26 a ton and 500 fine per acre not harvested due to inclement weather. We lost about 300k this year on them. Beet shares are basically worthless around here right now

[@WJack97224]

@@@dereks4497, It was mixed feelings giving you a thumbs up. Such a disastrous economic loss is just plain awful; my sympathies. But thanks for the statistics. Is there another crop that might fetch a profit? Regards.

[@scoobyears01]

great video, which drone did you use??

[@kenproctor6776]

A Yuneec Typhoon H w/CGO3+ camera

[@julesd2051]

Great Great I used to pull them par hand with the lillte forck very hard work 1952 in Belgium just Great AMERICAIN ingenuity!!!

[@simonbaker8776]

Nice video showing different types of chase bins, would of liked to hear the machines instead of the country music

[@badzomb3hd352]

I literally live like 22 miles from Akron Michigan

[@alexveldhuis6004]

I literally live like 3752 miles from Akron Michigan..

[@Captbilly1000]

Is there a way to harvest beet tops for cattle feed?.

[@samkom33]

it might, but im not sure its wourth the work. + its possible its not possible to use it for say silage.. also if you remove it,, you have to add even more fertiliser to the field. i guess

[@iwonasudo6152]

Jak mieliśmy dobre kombajny do zbioru trzy etapowego to naśmiewanie się a w cukrowni gnębili za nie doglowione buraki . Dzisiaj po naszych kombajnach nie ma śladu . A w cukrowni ani słowa na temat buraków źle oglowionych . Taki to nasz naród , wszystko zrobi przeciw sobie a Niemiec się cieszy

[@wouterschouten3376]

Fact: bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica

[@HughieMunro]

What... what is going on here?!

[@dantederoover4396]

In Belgium we put the sugar beets on a pile next or on the field and pick them up later. Is there any reason why they just truck them immediatly in the US?

[@vladovladik1223]

so is also in poland beet delivery to the factory is just in time and piles are covered by vlise against froze

[@constructcargokft.2659]

I thinking on the same... One Ropa Eurotiger or a Holmer T4-40 would chop the leaves and lift the whole field with one person in plannable time, and left the beets in a depo along the road, and then when they should deliver to the factory one Ropa EuroMaus can load it to the truck, parks on the edge of the road... no need for 6-7 300 hp tractors, loader wagons, pulling quadtrack, etc... 2 people and 2 machines... (or one people, if the same operator drives the lifter and the loader...) Sometimes americans extremly productives, sometimes extremly complicated...

[@Snowtruckdriver]

In the USA most of our beet production is in northern states that have severe winter weather. Beets are hauled and put into storage piles on the factory property so they have access throughout the severe winters.

[@johnbos9688]

There is an increasing "maus" presence in the USA, but you have to remember the sugar companies have invested lots of money in existing facility's such as piling grounds.

[@josephastier7421]

Do you own all that equipment, or does it go on tour from farm to farm at harvest time?

[@kenproctor6776]

Bernia Farms owns the equipment for harvest of their sugar beets.

[@yasin33333]

How many kilos of boric acid do you give per hectare?

[@seegerhd8101]

how much can these Trucks carry?

[@christophermwanilwa7074]

I like it.

[@Der_Kranfahrer]

Why have the trailer so much axles? Is the axleload so less?

[@Snowtruckdriver]

State laws for limits on National Bridge laws

[@ldgrmp]

Why does the tractor continue to pull the semi once it's on the highway?

[@rolloverriderpgr]

he tows it to the shoulder and drop the chains off the truck and it heads on to the factory.

[@lindaplank5665]

ldgrmp iaa

[@karlstoll9248]

Super

[@christopherlovelock9104]

OK, but got fed up with the music - as with most YT stuff same thing over & over, but then I believe if you play a recognised tune you run into "copyright issues" and have to pay to use it.

[@champagnesylvie-lavieenfra1378]

Hello from french tiny farmers! 💬 👓it's sugar beets harvesting in my country too! America is really amazing! Nice work ! we are little farmers and you have some dream engines 👓 🥂🍾🍷🍇𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 farmers 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭 from la FRANCE 𝓒ⒽⒶ𝓜ⓟ𝓐𝓰𝓝𝓔 𝓢Ⓨ𝓛𝓥𝓘𝓔 🍾🍷🍇

[@claesmansson9070]

Bundy Beers tune 5:45 think.

[@user-sj1vh2ex1y]

Не показывают сколько потерь а их очень много у этой технологии

[@nathamon2618]

19:22 MASSAGE

[@bohhica1]

I guessed 3:00, not bad !

[@haraldsivertsen7027]

I guess this is an american solution to a nonexistent problem. Why not load the semitrailer at a place where the ground is solid and the truck can pull off the load alone? That's why you have overloaders/carts or what?

[@Snowtruckdriver]

As a general rule in USA is isn't legal to load trucks on a county road shoulder. The soil consistency in this field will not support concentrated weight so this is why they load the way they do. It differs from farm to farm.

[@wildturkey5838]

It's also important to kept the harvester moving. Stopping to unload can cost the harvester a quarter or a third of it's time so keeping it moving is a big priority, especially when the beets start losing sugar content as soon as they're harvested.

[@wildturkey5838]

All it takes is on little bobble on the truck driver's part and he's stuck, and that stops production, etc until he gets going again. Pulling the truck with the tractor saves time and insures the work goes smoothly.

[@chevysilver-ray-dough6328]

American soultion to a non existent problem huh? Where are you from Mr. Know it all? I would love to see you operate a farm. You can do it because you're so smart right? Lol probably not.

[@GRASSorMUCK]

No he''d make a pile along the edge of the headland and have a Maus loading trucks on hardstanding rather than tow an artic from your landwork with a quaddie and wonder where all your compaction is coming from. Although running rowcrops and single axel carts, doubtful there's many fooks given anyway.

[@generalb4005]

Of course they edited out the portion of the video where they spray the crops with pesticides✍️✍️✍️

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[@MrDieselross]

Wenn ihr mit europäischer Selbstfahrtechnik, sei es Holmer, Ropa oder Grimme arbeiten würdet, könntet ihr Personal und Maschinen spahren. Meinetwegen könnte man gleichwohl mit Überladewagen arbeiten. Doch mit einer Verlademaus könntet ihr euch das vorhängen des quatrac spahren. Ebenso die grössere Strassenvermutzung... Warum muss dieser 60 t schwere strassenbereifte Lkw auf das Feld fahren??! Bodenschonung? Fehlanzeige!

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