Contest
It has been brought to my attention that the Carbon County News, along with local businesses, is sponsoring a contest for sugar beet growers. There are prizes for the biggest sugar beet and the uniquely shaped beet. You won’t be able to find out about the contest on the newspapers web site. They don’t have much on-line.
As a sugar beet grower, I’m trying to imagine other growers out there actually going through the beets looking for the biggest and/or oddest. Right now most farmers are more manic than ever. They’re anxious to get into the fields and get it over with. It’s been raining - and the fields are wet. Mud stresses the equipment - and everyone. Farmers are cursing while trying to get equipment in and beets out of the fields.
I’ve decided to have a contest, too. How about the funniest looking farmer? This will not be restricted to sugar beet farmers. Any funny farmer will do. Please send your entries to karbonkountymoosatgmail.com.
Me first:
This is a pathetic sugarbeet
Not winning the largest sugar beet contest with that baby. Yes, that’s a corn field behind me. I’ve no idea why I had on the cap, other than to pose for a goofy photo. It looks like it was maybe late July - and several years ago. I had dug it up to show my mother who was visiting. I was wearing thongs (flipflops, don’t get excited) - so it was before the time I encountered a rattlesnake in the garden.
October 10th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
So how the heck is anyone supposed to top that????? bonnie
October 10th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
heh heh
cute photo
October 11th, 2005 at 8:24 am
Bonnie - are you referring to topping the beet?
Oh, no I get it…
Hiya L!
October 11th, 2005 at 10:54 am
You mean that you to not think farmers will be excited by the contest. I guess the newspaper people do not understand that it is work not fun. I can see a biggest pumpkin contest but sugar beet. Must be a slow news week.
A rattle snake in the garden. I once tripped in a hole and fell and almost, thank goodness, landed on a dead and bloated ground hog one of the dogs had killed. Gross but not dangerous. It should not have been in my garden. I will look for funny farmers.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Karen, after driving from here to Blg and back today, I think it would be hard to find a single farmer who is having fun. A few beets piled at Lovell, a very few north of Bridger and when we got home, whole fields topped off and a few dug. I suppose it is no big deal to a casual observer but I KNOW how much money is invested in those fields and the harvest should be a third done by now and it is hardly begun. To borrow a phrase, I can “feel their pain.” bonnie
October 11th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Are you sure that’s a beet? It looks like an ear of corn to me.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:58 pm
Cute picture. Don’t think I’ve ever grown a beet so I won’t be entering.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:49 am
beet..corn…i wouldn’t know - but here is my question for you K.
do the folks out there use dead corn stalks as decoration. we pathetic suburbanites will actually pay 5 bucks for a hand full of corn stalks, then lash them to our mailboxes.
October 12th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Catma - Well, some might be. But from truck & tractor seats, I don’t think that too many will be sorting through beets by hand. Almost! I understand the “thank goodness”.
Bonnie - Fields topped & not dug? You can get in a whole lot of trouble for that. . . Aren’t you glad that you’re not raising the four letter things anymore?
Jough - Sadly, yes, I’m sure. . . Mom wanted to see one - and when Mom asked, I jumped. . . Thanks for the funny farmer photos!
Bec - Any funny farmer will do!
Weese - Yes! Our feed corn is chopped - stalk & all. But there are plenty of folks who buy stalks for decorations. I grew broom corn a few times & it’s very pretty for that, too. It comes in different colors & the birds love the seeds. Bonnie can tell you about folks who buy straw for decoration.
October 12th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Weese, this farm actually sent a semi load (over 500 bales) of nice clean barley straw to a feed store in Casper last Saturday. Most of it will sell between now and Halloween for decorations and “hay” rides. We will send several more semi loads for animal bedding and reclimation work before spring. What really amazes me, though, are the people who will pay $5 for a little bitty 12×6x6 (inches) bale of straw in the craft stores! bonnie
October 12th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
Not sure about the funniest looking but you just might get the cutest. That made me giggle!!