Just me and some (possibly) suedes

Can any farmers out there explain why they haven’t been harvested? They look healthy but they are all just lying there...

[Clive Handscombe]

They will probably let the sheep or cattle out to graze on them.

[Louise]

I think it's sugar beet, which is harvested from autumn to spring so is perhaps pulled up but not yet collected? It's used for animal feed so won't be treated as carefully as vegetables for humans I suppose!

[JackieR]

@roachling in suffolk they use to make sugar!!
A lovely sunny shot Lesley!

[Louise]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond ah, interesting! Around here, I always see sugar beet being fed to sheep!

[Pat Knowles]

Yes it will be a crop to feed the sheep. Our nephew has his sheep eating these in a field at the moment.

[Annie-Sue]

with where you are in the country, I'd have presumed it was swedes or some other fodder crop for stock

[Susan Wakely]

Great selfie shadow.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

good question

[Babs]

Interesting answers to your question.

[Wendy]

Lots of great answers. I would not have been able to answer it because we cannot do that in our snowy winter country.

[Lesley]

@clivee @roachling @30pics4jackiesdiamond @roachling @happypat @anniesue @koalagardens @onewing @farmreporter Thanks all. Animal feed makes perfect sense.

[Lesley]

@wakelys Thanks Susan.