Sugar beet is a staple crop of English farming. In Norfolk two things begin every year in September. The pheasant shooting season and the sugar beet harvest. Young pheasants fresh from the rearing pens, gravitate in a dangerous manner to the country roads, to be joined by the sugar beet lorries that collect the harvested beet and convey it to the British Sugar factories at Wissington and Cantley. The sight of sugar beet lorries, herald the new school term and the change in the seasons to autumn, with misty mornings and shortening daylight hours.
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| I took this picture just outside Attleborough, about half a mile from the junction for the A11. The lorry is waiting by the beet elevator and the teleporter is heading to the pile sugar beet to load the elevator. |
I will add more pictures as the season progresses. At the moment it is dry on the land, with day light hours still into the evening. The process gets wet, muddy, dark and cold, as we head through to Christmas.
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| This Vervaet 617 sugarbeet harvester was working Neil's land in Breckland. |
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This John Deere tactor was ferrying the beet off the land.
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The harvester has a conveyor belt to load the sugarbeet into the trailers.
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| Neil was driving his tractor John Deere tractor and here he is lining up with the harvester to collect the beet. |
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| Neil's John Deere 6830 |
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