Sugar Beets

Sugar Beet harvest is in full swing here in Idaho. The days are busy and long. Kenyon is digging not too far from the house so Korbin has gotten to ride with him a few times. Then it is straight to playing harvest when he gets home! I don't claim to know a lot about all this farming, but I'm trying to learn.
Before the beets can be dug, they have to chop off the leaves and scalp the top of the beets. Then the digger can come and take them out of the dirt and up through the machine and out a boom to load a truck. They have a few semi's and quite a few 10 wheelers. The semi's tend to get stuck a lot easier because of the weight of the load. It hasn't been too wet so that has helped. The days are getting shorter and colder. We have had good weather here, so that is nice. Beet harvest will go into the beginning of November. For now we have long working days, lots of trucks on the road, dust lingering where truck traffic is heavy, and mud. The next vehicle we purchase will not be black.............:)
Weston is on the move. He is not crawling yet, but army crawls/scoots very well. It keeps us on our toes. Trying to keep the floor cleaner as crumbs, dead flies, ect. go strait into his mouth!! I don't have any pictures of the beet dump yet and hope to get some very soon~
All for now!!

Testing out the step

Scooting

Scalped beets......the white parts are the top of the beets

Pull tractor (notice the huge rope in back)

Pulling a semi through the mud

On the way to the dump with a load

Kenyon loading a truck

Three diggers waiting for trucks to load......Kenyon's digger in front

Sugar Beets
With dad at the John Deere Tractor and Beet Digger