Beet Ball: Monitoring sugar beet piles from the inside out

Sugar beet pile spoilage costs Red River Valley growers nearly $100 million every year. Although drones equipped with infrared cameras are currently used to monitor beet piles, these tools can only detect spoilage once it has already progressed - because they only capture what’s happening on the surface.Researchers at North Dakota State University, Dr. Benjamin Braaten and Jeffery Eric...

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