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North west MN | 1. Sugar beet piles - do they need to be cleaned up before it thaws? Does the snow melting into the pile cause it to heat?
Yes the beets usually get cleaned up by may.
2. Malt plants North of Fargo and east of Moorhead. Do they still grow malt barley in those areas. I would have thought that with the high vomi/fusarium levels in wheat and barley, especially in a high moisture area like the Red River valley that no barley would be grown anymore.
I think they bring allot of barley in from the west Like you said we have a hard time growing it to meet the specs they want.
3. Where's all the unharvested corn? I think I saw about 4 fields from the Canadian border down till Fargo and then across to Minneapolis. Is it further south into SD?
I think you have to go off the highway a little east into MN between Fargo and Grand Forks I know of Many 1000's of acres within 20 miles of where I live.
4. How big a pile of corn is that at the elevator about 30 miles East of Fargo-Moorehead. It looked alot bigger than the piles of grain we have around here. My wild guess is about 1 million bushels. Am I close?
I have not seen that pile were you on Highway 10 or 94?
5. Where does everyone in MN and Iowa store their corn/soybeans? I was amazed at how little on farm storage there was from into MN down to Davenport via Minneapolis and Waterloo. I realize that many guys haul straight to the elevator or e-plant but I didn't even see many of those along the way.
On farm storage has been expanding very fast and the farms are getting farther apart.
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ND/MN/IA farming questions
