Family Beet Roots 0:21–1:27
The coffee is plenty. Let's start at the beginning. When did your family come to Alder Creek? My grandfather came out in 1927, one year after the town incorporated. He'd been dry farming wheat down by Holbrook and heard …
Sugar beet harvest
4 segments from 1 interviews touch on this subject.
Interview with Harold Vickers
Childhood Harvest Work 1:27–2:02
What was harvest like when you were young? Hard. Everybody says that, but I mean it particular. Before the mechanical harvesters got good, you topped beets by hand with a knife that had a hook on the end. You'd hook the …
Sprinklers and Closure 2:02–2:48
When did things start to change? Two things: sprinklers and the contract. We leveled and ditched that farm for flood irrigation my whole young life, and then in 1968 or '69, my dad and I put in wheel lines, and suddenly …
Neighbors Harvest Together 2:48–3:24
Two things: sprinklers and the contract. We leveled and ditched that farm for flood irrigation my whole young life, and then in 1968 or '69, my dad and I put in wheel lines, and suddenly the bench ground that never water…