One work day and more rain

The piling sites opened up today and the guys went to work. They could always get pulled out if needed and the tractor was standing by in the field, and in the piling yards. The fields weren’t as bad as I thought, but the pilers had so much mud from the trucks and it got so slick, the tires would just spin in some spots. They were busy pulling some trucks out and trying to clean up the messes. I rode with him for two rounds. I didn’t see anyone get pulled out, but there was one truck that was slowly trying to get himself out and kept sliding.

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They worked from about 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM when it started raining pretty hard. So the day shift got some hours in, but not the night shift this time.

We're sitting still again :(

Curt was able to drive truck for sugar beet harvest for five days and now they're shut down again due to rain.  It rained the past two days and prospects for the rest of the month don't look good.  We've been here a month now; potato harvest was 10 days and so far only 7 days with sugar beets.  The rest of the time has been waiting because of snow, rain or freezing temperatures.

An interesting article about sugar beets in the Agweek magazine: http://www.agweek.com/business/agriculture/4516561-sugar-beets-nipped-after-suffering-two-doozy-frosts

Grand Forks, ND 10 Day Weather

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DAY	DESCRIPTION	HIGH / LOW	PRECIP	WIND	HUMIDITY
TODAY OCT 26	Showers	54°34°	40%	NNW 8 mph	82%
SAT OCT 27	PM Showers	51°36°	50%	WSW 7 mph	79%
SUN OCT 28	Partly Cloudy	53°31°	20%	NW 13 mph	68%
MON OCT 29	Cloudy	51°35°	20%	SSE 11 mph	73%
TUE OCT 30	Mostly Cloudy	47°30°	20%	NW 18 mph	69%
WED OCT 31	Mostly Cloudy	41°28°	10%	NW 11 mph	68%
THU NOV 1	Mostly Cloudy	41°26°	20%	NNW 8 mph	68%
FRI NOV 2	Cloudy	36°22°	20%	NNW 12 mph	69%
SAT NOV 3	Mostly Cloudy	36°25°	10%	NE 8 mph	71%
SUN NOV 4	Cloudy	36°26°	20%	SE 12 mph	77%
MON NOV 5	PM Showers	39°28°	30%	SSE 13 mph	80%
TUE NOV 6	Partly Cloudy	40°28°	10%	W 12 mph	79%
WED NOV 7	Partly Cloudy	39°27°	10%	WNW 11 mph	81%
THU NOV 8	Partly Cloudy	38°26°	20%	NNW 10 mph	76%
FRI NOV 9	Partly Cloudy	37°25°	10%	NW 13 mph	77%