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Crops harvested, delivered and maintenance

A person standing on the box trailer can manually operate the unloading elevator.

The B-carrots are harvested straight into boxes and taken away into storage.

The rotating drum which is used to clean the celeriac. Knifes on the outside cut off lumps of soil and the roots.

The celeriac is tipped from boxes into the drum.

Harvesting celeriac with a adapted beet harvester from a contractor.

The celeriac is unloaded into boxes in the yard.

Due to the extraordinary wet autumn it was sometimes requiered to use an extra tractor to pull the harvester through wet spots.

A lot has happened on our farm during recent times. All of the B-carrots were harvested. This cost a lot of effort due to the extremly wet autumn. It was even requiered to use a second tractor sometimes to help the harvester through wet spots. The quality of the carrots is good. Everything has been stored in boxes and transported into climatised storage. In there the produce is kept at around nil degrees celcius, with a reliatively high hummdity, to prevent dehydration.

All of the celeriac has also been lifted. This is done ideally during late November because the roots are then well matured. This helps to store them for a longer period and keep up quality. The early harvested celeriac has been delivered to the proccesing industry. Over there the crop will be proccesed and used in salades or as ingredient in all sorts of products. Before delivere the crops is cleaned first by passing them through a rotating drum. Knifes, mounted on the outside, cut off any lumps of soil and the roots. After they have passed the drum the remaining roots are cut off by hand.

We are currently busy cleaning all of our machinery. When this is done everything will be moved indoors for maintenance check-ups. Almost all of the fieldwork has been completed, apart from ploughing the celeriac and carrot land. We are also busy making ready (grading, washing, packing, etc.) of onions, carrots, potatoes and celeriac.