Sugar Beet with GAC Farming & Contracts

[@jamesbyrne5734]

Great video . Machine has come a long way . I Grew up on a small farm and my father fed beet to his cattle . We sewed it with a single row cast iron originally horse drawn seeder pulled with a Ferguson 20 TVO . We thinned them out a month or two later on hands and knees . Harvest them by hand ringing the leaves off to cover the piles of beet until they were brought to the yard . Loaded by hand ✋🏻 Pulped into chip shapes every evening in a hand turned pulper to feed the cattle . Wishing my father was alive to see this equipment. 🤗

[@gerryoconnor8751]

My God the changes I have seen in my lifetime. Pulling beet by hand, and coming home from school and Pulping fodder beet and turnips for cows and cattle and carrying it 5 gallon oil drums to stock all over the place 😀

[@jascollinscork]

Nice video for a change!!! A falla in KK has one if these harvesters!! Fantastic washer!!

[@smokeybear69]

Great vid, really interesting to hear about the beet. 🤘🏻

[@Paulo660]

Nice video again.

[@stephenross1581]

I still wonder how road legal the smiths trailer is, surly it’s over the legal weight limit or is it different in Ireland ??

[@johnwakley7165]

Sad fact is that slurrykat in the video with the smyth is probably overweight as well 🙁

[@1robje]

The harvester is a Frans vervaet, a Dutch beet harvester manufacturer, they also make manure 3 and 5 wheel trikes

[@joelgibson4750]

The sugar beet makes my dairy cows dance all over the shed

[@ilovesilage1234]

Awesome video

[@lukeculwick3390]

I recognise that beet harvester anyone know when and where they got it from. I think it might be my dad's uncles old one.

[@gameplayboy-sn2cx]

My dad works for ivan magaw 😂

[@lukeculwick3390]

@@gameplayboy-sn2cx no way would you be able to find out so I can prove my dad wrong🤣

[@SimonKL11]

Nice interview, beet harvest looks interesting😉👍

[@cyprianofcarthage6890]

My family is a sugarbeet farm up where Canada and Michigan meet

[@chriswilloughby5295]

Looks good

[@adamwatson6384]

Do you still have the roadking tyres on the fastrac? Think farmflix did interview with Mgaws. Seemed good lads. What's the cubic capacity of that Smyth trailer?

[@Grassmen]

50cm tho that would be silage sides on

[@adamwatson6384]

Wow! Our 16t Stewart is only 21 cube. No silage sides.

[@lukenicholl7746]

Is that monbrief east road

[@russelljohnson4847]

Why don’t you leave the tops in the field and bring some sheep in to eat them off so your getting manure from the sheep and renting the field out for store sheep to eat them off just an idea.

[@LewisLevy]

The sheep wouldn't eat the beets?

[@russelljohnson4847]

@@LewisLevy there a lot of farmers in the UK that rent there fields out over winter for the sheep that’s had sugar beet in to eat the tops off.

[@LewisLevy]

@@russelljohnson4847 Right. I've only heard of this in the method of planting fodder beets as a cover crop/ley thing and then letting the sheep eat the beets and use their manure as you said

[@russelljohnson4847]

@@LewisLevy the farmers here let the sheep eat the sugar beet tops but they have to watch the sheep that they don’t blow up by eating too much.

[@monkeymagic4555]

Tatties ya Bas!