Harvesting the EVIL Brussel sprouts (stupid comment aside)

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9. I liked how the machine beat the dirt off the carrots before chopping the greens off.

When I was a kid, the sugar company paid farmers by the pound of beets they produced. Farmers would drive trucks of beets to the depository, weigh the truck with the beets, dump the beets into a bin that shook the dirt off, redeposited the dirt back into the truck, & then weighed the truck again. The whole process took less than five minutes. Waiting in line took longer. The company also did sugar tests on the beets & knew which farmers produced beets with higher sugar content & had awards for tonnage & sugar content.

So when I said above how much bigger the operation is now, the trucks we used might have held half of one of those blue carrot bins. Maybe half. Maybe more like a third. That's how big this equipment is compared to the 60s.