February fodder beet harvest.

[@Adamhayteamtv]

Glad to hear your dads getting better Dan.. everyday is a school day in farming. Great video. 👍

[@wallaceloan4169]

Thanks Dan for this video on you lifting fodder beet. Its nice to see how well they keep in the field.

[@pauljones2633]

Another great video Dan. Glad to hear Father is on the mend. Keep up the good work and thanks for the channel sticker, looks great on my pickup

[@teddytiptree4450]

that beet had a real crunch to it! great video Dan!

[@nathanu425]

Really enjoyed that Dan,please ignore this photo my sons idea can't get it off I am a 62 year old male originally from N Yorkshire and tho no experience of sugar beet can remember snagging turnips and mangolds in the field by hand and could almost smell that crop being harvested and taking me back to late 60s early 70s. Thank you.

[@nickhill3362]

Great your dad is getting better Dan hope he has a speedy full recovery 👍

[@aussiefarmer100]

Hi there I am Ken I am from Australia 👍

[@kylesullivan3114]

Glad to hear your old Dad's on the mend hope you get the rest of it off the field while it's dry ☔👍

[@ranwolfFARM]

I hope your dad feels better soon. I love watching your videos. Daggerwin should watch this one.

[@graemebowyer4901]

Guess you may be finished now as the weather over the weekend was ideal. Glad to hear your dad is on the mend.

[@dougpeterson5257]

Thanks again, enjoy the eagerness that the cows have for the beets. They like the sweet taste just like many people. Wishing your dad a speedy recovery

[@davebambrook7745]

Hello Dan, great video enjoyed watching

[@the-elite-firmtiger4881]

Brilliant 👏

[@kaj-agehenneberg6312]

Surprised to see you harvest beets in February. But as you show, it seems to work well.

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video dan, glad dad is on the mend.

[@mikejh321]

Glad to hear ya dads on the mend Dan 👍🏼👍🏼

[@lesrose800]

Great video keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing some spring field work ,

[@bobpaterson1845]

Thankfully we are gettin a few dry days just now 👍 good video again Dan glad to hear ur dad on the mend an able to give strict instructions on how to run the harvester 🙄😂😂👍

[@craigdoig9486]

Good evening another great interesting video again

[@philipjmcloughlin5880]

Good video Dan nice to see you driving the harvester

[@HootMaRoot]

Fodder beet is the same as carrots and turnips or as you guys down in England call them swedes. I still have almost a months worth of carrots and turnips in the ground for my own consumption and by the time I have lifted all of them it should be time to prepare the soil for next year's veg crop

[@alex5983]

Brilliant to see you guys out in the fields Dan! We got the last of ours lifted a few days ago. Thank you for a brilliant video!

[@davay42]

good to hear your dads on the mend wish id ground as dry as that have 2 acres of potatoes stiil in the ground no hope of diging them yet to wet

[@johnsheahan7914]

Great video as always I hope you and your family are doing okay I am glad to hear that your dad is on the mend

[@antonyfarming]

Great video 👍 nice machine's The only way to learn is to do it👌 Glad dad's getting better Take care 👍 Antony

[@julianhawker7672]

Good to hear that Your father is on the mend now.

[@stevehucker7170]

Another great video Dan thanks for sharing

[@brendanwhite9799]

Good to hear your dad is on the mend .just a quick question for you does that harvester bring a lot of stone in with the beet compared with the Armer

[@jaffa154]

Just bought in a load of fodder beet for the in lamb ewes

[@lordofhowell7158]

Hope it stays dry for you! Brilliant video 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Thomasfarmstn]

Hello from Leoma, TN!

[@vintagetractorollie9421]

Good work looking good weather for the next week 🤞

[@padraigtaylor8333]

Boy the dan 👍👍 keeping her lit

[@craigdoig9486]

Watching from kings Lynn Norfolk uk

[@olepedersen3260]

Hello from Denmark (where your harvester came from btw.). I was wondering how low your temps got down and how long the frost lasted. We had 3 weeks of frost and a few nights in the -15 to -18 range and I’m not sure the beet would have managed that. They will rot if they freeze in the clamp but I guess if they are still in the ground it will keep them warm enough as long as the ground doesn’t freeze.

[@deepinthecountryside6248]

Same question here.

[@CowfarmerDan]

We only went down to -5 for maybe 10 days, so nothing too extreme.

[@craigdoig9486]

That field looks pretty dry

[@andreas515c2]

Hi Dan, interesting to harvest beets in February. Do you practice this the first year? What about weather conditions, is it safe to be able to harvest in February in your region? Farm on, Andreas

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

👍👍 Have to ask a couple of questions. What soil do you have? And wouldn't you rather switch to maize? Because maize has a higher yield as beets

[@CowfarmerDan]

Beet has a higher yield per acre than maize Alex. We dont have enough spare acres at the home farm to grow maize and dont want to grow it on rented land that would involve travelling on roads in potentially wet harvests.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

@@CowfarmerDan thanks

[@bobcrawford2105]

Ditch the topper just lift them green top if using straight away cows will love them

[@ipfreely10001]

Feeding fresh, green tops to cows will make them shit throu the eye of a needle- fresh tops contain oxalic acid- potentially toxic if consumed in a large quantity- 2-3 days wilt and the are way less toxic. Taking the tops of means you can feed them fresh, plus the tops in the beet holding area will get contaminated with soil, more so if conditions are wet! A place I was dairy manager, we started growing fodder beet, my boss said was ok to feed them fresh- the farm had its own harvester and grew sugar beet. Arable staff left the topper at the same height and they came in with quite a bit of green tops. I vaguely remembered from my college days, you can't feed green tops. He wouldn't listen and following day cows were scouring- after a couple days there was mucus, membrane type stuff in the liquid poop. He did his "research" then,- dipshit wasn't a hands on guy, rich family- and said WE shouldn't have fed them fresh needed wilting!! Fertility took a tumble as we were autumn block calving. He made sure the arable staff altered the machine and lifted well before I was running out. (He always had to learn the hard way to find out what was right, despite paying me like 32k a year!!- guy was a pillock)

[@philipbutler9404]

Nice video Dan could of been a bit drier for you hope dad keeps improving.

[@kcphillips1000]

Do you chop the beet before you feed it to the cows ?

[@CowfarmerDan]

Yes

[@davldcooksey4137]

Hello,👍

[@casto-]

Nothing like throwing your self in at the deep end with not too helpfully conditions 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️. Does the beet become sweeter if the frost gets it? I know parsnips do 🤷‍♂️

[@CowfarmerDan]

I'm not sure, but I guess it might.

[@ewansimpson4736]

I Thought It Was Brother Who Drove The Harvester

[@CowfarmerDan]

No, he's usually hedge cutting while we harvest.

[@GeigerFarm]

Used oil +1 😉.

[@CowfarmerDan]

It's not worn out yet 😆

[@joshjerrome8227]

When’s the stickers coming from a video a while back

[@CowfarmerDan]

They were all posted in January

[@melvinjohansson8006]

Hello