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.
