hello it's ricardo and welcome back to farming simulator 2022. today we're going to talk about
sugar beet how you plant it how you harvest it and what the yields are all about let's take a look
now even though sugar beet does look quite innocuous there is nice little rose lovely plants
it is quite an advanced crop in farming simulator you know it does require hefty investment not just
to put it in because typically you want a nice big field to increase your yield and what have you but
you do need specialized equipment to harvest it and it's an intense effort to harvest but it is
quite a profitable crop as well now as we can see you plant sugar beet in the march april and
may time but then it's harvest october november so quite late on in the year it's a busy old time of
year that sort of have especially if you're in the corn sunflower and soya bean and even cotton area
you could find yourself having multiple projects going on at the same time even though selecting
sugar beet we can see that the johnson's farmer's market currently and we're in the middle of the
year so about july time is knocking on the door of 292 pounds you can get more expensive um places
to go and sell your pl your harvest but let's face it you're gonna have to wait until december
to january to do that so let's talk about field preparation well i've gone for a huge old field
field 39 on my farm and you can see i've got my massive planter here with a nice long
sort of like span of the arm planting my sugar beet uh it's covering the ground quite nicely
however as you can see i also need to do a bit of weeding and a bit of rollering as well so no
dramas i've got my reader here it is uh we're going to extend that and get that on the go as
well get it on the case it's got a hoe attachment on it as well it's really good and quite an
effective beading machine so take a look at that sort of device when you go to the shop when it
unfolds you can see it's got quite a nice arm span as well so we're gonna hire a worker for that and
get on with something a little less boring instead like maneuvering my roller ready to roll the field
now at a large old field i've gone for a large old roller look at that it's the diablo
mega roll and it is a mega roll as well 24 30. so with that extended and all the arms extended you
can see i'll be able to get round and roll this field quite easily and quite quickly and more
than likely catch up with my reader that's doing all its reading halfway across either way it'll
do that we'll hire a worker to do it there's plenty of room for this reader to maneuver
and this roller can do all the rolling it wants it needs without me having to
intervene perhaps if i get a little bit closer to some of the buildings and then before long
after a couple of cycles you get this yes folks a nicely planted field of sugar beets
so with the october harvest upon us it's time to go shopping once again
for something that's gonna get those sugar beets those lovely jewels in the ground out
of the ground now for that we're gonna need the rootster 604 but also we're gonna need
that header now the header is going to chop all the foliage off the sugar beet
before you harvest it just as it says and it's basically pushed by a tractor now i say pushed
by a tractor you can't drag it at least not this version anyway um and these are all the versions
that come with the main game so far there's not a mod for this so the grim ft 300 is what we're
gonna need to take the tops off the sugar beets which then they can then be harvested by our
rootster 604 right so a bit of money to spend here as you can imagine other things we've got
to buy are things like planters and cultivators but we've already got that we're not going to
bother getting anything else but here is the grim ft 300 we're going to buy ourselves one of those
and say okay now i've already got a tractor but i could hook up to that so that's not a problem
and then we've got the rooster 604 which like i say is the harvester for the sugar beets
so if you're in any doubt of what to do you can click on the beet technology and you can
look at some of these other machines as well that you can use to do some cultivating uh
and chopping off the heads of the of the sugar root okay so all that done we can see we've got
a three meter width on that 104 meter on the rupa and the 2.7 on the other roofer as well
okay so there are options but i'm just going to go with the grim stuff it's nice it's red
it's not too big so you can manage it through a multitude of different fields
here is our beat harvester and it's only kind of a small capacity to be honest with you you know um
and i was a bit surprised by this because you're constantly having to decanter the sugar beets out
of this with a trailer it's an arduous crop to do it really is a long crop and i'll demonstrate this
a bit further on in the video so you know we're going on the packages we can see the options that
are put amongst us for getting our sugar beets and now we're gonna buy a tractor and it's time
to move on and get that device down to our field with our sugar beets so we can get them harvested
oh at our field now you can see some matured and ready to remove the foliage levels of sugar beet
so you can see the leaves are nice and mature you can see the sugar beet
just poking out the bottom and here is our tractor now when i said you have to push it
you have to push this tool you can't pull it this is the wrong way of doing it right you can't do it
as soon as you get near as soon as you say you hire the worker it says it can't do it
because the tool is correct is attached incorrectly you attach it to the front
of your tractor wheels at the front and then you can start topping off these sugar beets
basically how you do it i added a weight at the back as well in case there was any problems
not that you probably need it but i thought hey why not i wonder if i could attach
a weight to the back of this tractor and of course i could so there's our sugar beets
nicely in the ground they've had the tops cut off all the foliage has been removed
those sugar beets are ready to be harvested now in essence here is the problem and it's a big problem
this device has not got a big enough hopper and there are no mods available at the time of making
this video that allow it to have a bigger hopper you're going to be constantly alongside this with
a trailer and there's no two ways about it right our topper is topping off the sugar beets time to
start harvesting hiring a worker you can see the rails go on the side and there's all the sugar
beets going into the hopper great stuff and away we go we're off now with this particular field
field 39 it's a big field it's a really big field and going along the length of this field
for every other one and a half lengths you're gonna have to unload your sugar beets into a
trailer now whether you have a smaller trailer and keep going back and forth a store to dump them
off and to sell them or whether you get a bigger trailer like what i've got here the only problem
with this big trailer is you can't get too close to it because it'll hit the extender arm that's
deep unloading the sugar beets but you can get smaller trailers as well and this larger trailer
if you're careful you can just get it ready so it can get loaded in as well so i'm taking mine off
to the farmer's market i've got a good old trailer full of sugar beets right there we're gonna load
them off to the left-hand side it's going to take a while only 81 percent fall for this particular
trailer so it's about 15 000 liters so let's see what we're going to get for 15 000 liters of sugar
beet and like i said it is quite a complicated crop and you know depending whether you store
your sugar beets or whether you sell them straight away you're going to be constantly going back and
forth the shop and back and forth to the harvester and you'll get your messages you are you've got
nearly got a full tank on your harvest that means you've got to get yourself back pretty quickly
so there you go that was sowing the seeds for sugar beet that was preparing the fields
lime fertilizer rollering then we wait until october our sugar beets were then ready to
be harvested we got our harvester the rooster 604 and we did some harvesting and went back
and forth to the shop thanks for watching hope you enjoyed the video i'll see you soon
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