Sugar Beets II
Two ÖBB class 2016 meet under the Wild West-like scenery of silos and elevators at Raasdorf, where the left diesel came to a halt with a load of sugar beets ...
Because from Sept. to Feb. it's sugar beets time in eastern Austria !
But it is uncertain how long we will see those sweet loads and mountains of beets at collection sites along the tracks ? Not only because this crop year was actually very dry and poor, but also because this Oct. the protected European sugar beets market with the EU subsidies of guaranteed prices and quantities became free. So maybe the enormous annual sugar beets campaign with hundreds of beets loaded freight trains will soon be over ? The amount in my photo was also very small. Just a pile of maybe two truck loads and about 1 m high, but good enough for a sweet foreground ... ; )
PS: The writing on the elevator means:
"No future without farmers !" ...
Raasdorf, 10 / 17
Sugar Beets II
Two ÖBB class 2016 meet under the Wild West-like scenery of silos and elevators at Raasdorf, where the left diesel came to a halt with a load of sugar beets ...
Because from Sept. to Feb. it's sugar beets time in eastern Austria !
But it is uncertain how long we will see those sweet loads and mountains of beets at collection sites along the tracks ? Not only because this crop year was actually very dry and poor, but also because this Oct. the protected European sugar beets market with the EU subsidies of guaranteed prices and quantities became free. So maybe the enormous annual sugar beets campaign with hundreds of beets loaded freight trains will soon be over ? The amount in my photo was also very small. Just a pile of maybe two truck loads and about 1 m high, but good enough for a sweet foreground ... ; )
PS: The writing on the elevator means:
"No future without farmers !" ...
Raasdorf, 10 / 17