I had hoped to write a long post today on sugar beets, but with a Presbytery Meeting Friday and Saturday in Bismarck, and two services to prepare for on Sunday, I can’t quite pull that off. Still, though, October 1 marks the official start of sugar beet harvest, an economic engine of the area and — eventually — the source of sugar in many of your household goods (I mean, could we live without Coke and Oreos?!)

I will say, however, that all those in “the campaign” (as it is called) are on my mind today. For those out of the area who read the blog, they run 12 hour shifts, day and night until the harvest is completed. The processing plants are up and running now, and will be for months. The highways are full of trucks hauling beets and the farms have extra workers to keep the campaign running smoothly.

Now, only, if it would stop raining!

photo from wikipedia, but is from Morrison Farms, Bathgate, ND.