I didn't know I needed to learn about the production of potatoes but I found it fascinating. Very labor intensive and hands on, great video, well done.
Just found your channel. Really enjoyed the content !! I also subscribed. I am a retired field mechanic and welding fabricator after 43 years, from the mountains of southwestern Virginia . You all be careful and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
Hey Eddy! Thank you for subscribing, I’m glad you enjoy my content! I am still getting the hang of this UA-cam thing. It sounds like you had a very important career! Everyone needs someone they can rely on to keep all their equipment running. Thank you for the blessing!
I'm at the other end of the food service supply chain and I'm surprised how much you have to do to be in compliance with safety standards and such as you harvest/store/deliver your products. I've never understood why potatoes are so inexpensive. Now I wonder even more. Almost every person I know would gladly pay an extra buck or 2 if there was a mechanism and we could know it went to the actual producer. I'm sorry i noticed your tators first. Double sorry to your husband who must just "LOVE" the attention you get for that....
They do excellent work! Everyone should check out their website! www.s3welding.com/ they are building a custom piece of equipment for our potato packing line. I will definitely be showing off that equipment when it comes in.
Another trick for checking fuel is to walk over to the woods and get a somewhat straight stick and us that. Just make sure you pick one that is somewhat clean, no bark flaking off.
Hey Molly and all staff, great work so far! I love your "Spudnik hat". Another great detailed video! Hope the weather holds out for you. Never a dull moment at the farm I'm sure. Stay safe.
Really have been enjoying watching your vids!! They are the perfect length Molly...(11-13 min.)'ish... is perfect! Funny that I tripped across your UA-cam channel today. My youngest daughter was born in Brunswick, ME, 32 years ago TODAY!!! She lives in Alabama now, but this sure bring back great memories of living in Maine!!! You can keep those damn biting black flies though!!! LOL
Oh that’s very cool! Wish her happy birthday from us! Black flies… well you don’t understand how bad they are u less you have experience them. I’m originally from Ohio, and we did not have them there either! Thank you very much for watching!
This is some long hours! I help my friend on occasion. No time for anything but the tractors. Then you have to repair everything for the next year. Hopefully you have some heat in your shop.👍💯🇺🇸🇺🇸
I did a lot of walking/looking at the rows when potatoes were windrowed out in wet areas to see if any rot and if there was any at all we left , because its not the rot you see its the ones that haven't broken down yet which will cause problems. You folks were wise to leave those in the field . Good job !
Absolutely love Maine potatoes molly! I think they're better than Idaho. I used to get them in the stores here in new york but hadn't been seeing them for years.☹️ but when I do, I grab them because of their quality from maine!
It usually does at least a few times, we will usually bag potatoes or catch up on other things those days, because it would be a mess if we tried to dig.
Molly how are you connected to Bells Farms ? I see a lot of girls with Farm videos on here from all over USA and Canada. Which I think is good explaining how the production of what ever that farm is producing. How do you compare to the potatoes growers in Idaho? Do you send potatoes to Walmart or any other big grocery stores? Sorry for all the questions Well thank you for your time. Your generosity of information is gladly appreciated 😊
Hey Bill, thanks for watching and being interested! I married into the Bell family. I am learning to farm with them. We are a small farm compared to the big Idaho potato farms! But we do stay very busy and love what we do. We send sweet corn to Walmart and potatoes a a larger New England grocery store distribution center called Market Basket! If you have more questions let me know!
@@BellsFarming I have heard of market basket...my grandfather worked there in SoCal. Apparently there were two different Market Basket companies here in SoCal and the one on the East Coast is a third. I had to look it up to see if it happened to be the same company that was here years ago.
It is interesting to see a potato operation. With those potatoes that yall had to pass up because of the water, is it possible to go back later to get them, or are they just considered a loss?
Hahahah the gauge in that truck is very unreliable! I’m not sure how much 4 inches of fuel would have lasted me but I knew it need to be topped off before I started the day. Thank you for watching
Come people share this beautiful lady,with your freinds ,she is a good lady to be following, thanks BigAl California,,, get in one of the shifter manual trucks ,so we can see you shift gears ok that would get some more subscribers, thanks
Will you harvest the rye, or disk it in ? I saw the guy plugging a cord into your truck after you backed up to the unloader, was that to power the trucks conveyer belt ? Thanks for the video.
Good morning 🌄 hello 👋🏾 how you doing your still working with removal of potatoes and before winter closing soon?? how you still working on your go or stop being before winter closing 💬💬🤔🤔🤔🙄
Hey there good morning! The farm has finished potato harvest, I’m a little behind on making videos because we are so busy on the farm. But harvest went really well
Hey Molly, one question I had, you said you plant winter rye after your potatoes have been harvested to help with erosion over the winter. Now, do you just plow that under in the spring or is the rye used for anything? Also do deer feed on that rye in the winter? Be safe, Dan
We just plow it under, I try to catch it before it gets to tall, makes it easier to chop up with the disc. You know, I really don’t know if they eat it. I’ll have to ask the guys if they have noticed that before. I would think they might eat it while they can get to it before the snow covers it.
Rye is a nitrogen fixing plant. Pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere and adds it to the soil via it's roots. Plowing it under puts all the nutrients back into the soil to make it more fertile. And the plants are digested by worms and zillions of micro-organisms and they deposit their waste (manure) further enriching the soil.
Hey Jeff, I don’t do alot of social media at this point. Something I can try to work on. There are some dairy farms not to far from the farm. Our friend raises beef cattle, he is the closest one to us.
No problem, I’m very happy to reply to comments. I’m happy people are interested enough in the videos to leave comments. The weather has been good. I think today is going to be like 70 something! But cold front moving in soon.
@@BellsFarming After I posted that I wondered if you were just share-cropping that field. We had a dry spring, wet July, dry August and so so Sept here SW of Chicago. Where is your farm?
@@BellsFarming Maine? Potatoes from Maine? Who knew? LOL. Spent my honeymoon in Maine, almost 50 yrs ago. Thx for your reply. Hope you had a great holiday.
Bessie the supervisor. Love it.
Good Stuff from Auburn Maine! Every person I ever met at Bell Farms rocks! Best of Maine
Hey, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! I am so fortunate to be part of the Bell family! All good people. Thank you for watching !
I didn't know I needed to learn about the production of potatoes but I found it fascinating. Very labor intensive and hands on, great video, well done.
Thank you for watching!
Totally a beautiful lady 🥰
NICE TAY TAY TAYTORS !
Just discovered this channel about 17 hours ago, never thought it be this interesting and informative. Love the content
Just found your channel. Really enjoyed the content !! I also subscribed. I am a retired field mechanic and welding fabricator after 43 years, from the mountains of southwestern Virginia . You all be careful and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
Hey Eddy! Thank you for subscribing, I’m glad you enjoy my content! I am still getting the hang of this UA-cam thing. It sounds like you had a very important career! Everyone needs someone they can rely on to keep all their equipment running. Thank you for the blessing!
Thats a big tater! Thank you beautiful lady for showing us about tater harvest.
Great vids Molly. Who knew how much was involved in spud harvesting and storage. Impressive operation. Well done.
Thank you for watching Ted!
I'm at the other end of the food service supply chain and I'm surprised how much you have to do to be in compliance with safety standards and such as you harvest/store/deliver your products. I've never understood why potatoes are so inexpensive. Now I wonder even more. Almost every person I know would gladly pay an extra buck or 2 if there was a mechanism and we could know it went to the actual producer. I'm sorry i noticed your tators first. Double sorry to your husband who must just "LOVE" the attention you get for that....
Nice shirt! Really stylish and tastefully designed. I’m sure whoever’s business that is that they do good work
They do excellent work! Everyone should check out their website! www.s3welding.com/ they are building a custom piece of equipment for our potato packing line. I will definitely be showing off that equipment when it comes in.
Tks for sharing. Its really interesting on how potatoes harvest goes. There is a lot of work that happens. Ive never could imagine.
Thank you for watching!
Great video Molly and Shane
haha, missed one!
Great video first video I got to see of harvesting it was awesome. A lot of hard work and long hours. ❤
Thank you!
Oh my word, what a beautiful spot
Good morning Molly have a great day
Thank you Kevin, you too!
Another trick for checking fuel is to walk over to the woods and get a somewhat straight stick and us that. Just make sure you pick one that is somewhat clean, no bark flaking off.
Wow! That’s a lot of potatoes. Great video. I’m not a farmer but I know that is some hard work. I appreciate your effort. I love potatoes!
Thanks for watching Jay!
Hey Molly and all staff, great work so far! I love your "Spudnik hat". Another great detailed video! Hope the weather holds out for you. Never a dull moment at the farm I'm sure. Stay safe.
Thanks Dan! Have a wonderful day
Really have been enjoying watching your vids!! They are the perfect length Molly...(11-13 min.)'ish... is perfect! Funny that I tripped across your UA-cam channel today. My youngest daughter was born in Brunswick, ME, 32 years ago TODAY!!! She lives in Alabama now, but this sure bring back great memories of living in Maine!!! You can keep those damn biting black flies though!!! LOL
Oh that’s very cool! Wish her happy birthday from us! Black flies… well you don’t understand how bad they are u less you have experience them. I’m originally from Ohio, and we did not have them there either! Thank you very much for watching!
@BellsFarming How about that... I'm from Ohio too!!! I grew up on the shores of Lake Eerie, in Avon Lake, Ohio.
@@markb.1259 ha! I’m from vermillion!
@@markb.1259 we were like 40 mins apart
@@markb.1259 sorry for all the reply’s. Haha can you still hear my Ohio accent? I have picked up a lot of Maine accent in my opinion.
This is some long hours! I help my friend on occasion. No time for anything but the tractors. Then you have to repair everything for the next year. Hopefully you have some heat in your shop.👍💯🇺🇸🇺🇸
Haha
Gmorning 😊
Lovely Video.❤❤❤
Thank you for watching :)
@@BellsFarming welcome ♥️♥️♥️
Wow, great potatoes great video
Thank you for watching!
@@BellsFarming Oh yeah, you’re welcome ☺️
I did a lot of walking/looking at the rows when potatoes were windrowed out in wet areas to see if any rot and if there was any at all we left , because its not the rot you see its the ones that haven't broken down yet which will cause problems. You folks were wise to leave those in the field . Good job !
I think out of the 150 acres we planted we left somewhere around 7 total because of wet/rot. Most of those being yellows.
Hola nunca avía visto como cojer papas es con tus videos muy bueno tu ay andas como pez en el agua me canta gracias desde ES PAÑA un saludo 😘❤️😘👏👏👏😀😀
Farmers have to be scientists, plumber, electricians, truckers, etc
Yeah all professional wrapped into one. I have sooo much to learn!
Absolutely love Maine potatoes molly! I think they're better than Idaho. I used to get them in the stores here in new york but hadn't been seeing them for years.☹️ but when I do, I grab them because of their quality from maine!
Awesome! I hope some good potatoes find their way to you soon. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment
I love country girls!
Ericka who works with us is a county girl! She is the best!
I love potatoes, the thing about commercial production is all the chemicals that are used.
closin in on 16000 folowers! nicly done...
Hey do you have Instagram? I have an account on Instagram where you can leave me messages the account name is instagram.com/bellsfarming
@@BellsFarming NO but i can arange that@
@@BellsFarming hi, are you Therese MS Molly?
You guys must have a real mess if it rains during harvest season. Thanks for sharing.
It usually does at least a few times, we will usually bag potatoes or catch up on other things those days, because it would be a mess if we tried to dig.
Sorry for the late reply! Yes the rain really slows us down! We were lucky it wasn’t to went at harvest time.
@@BellsFarming that’s ok. I know how it gets at harvest time. Stay safe and keep those videos coming. 👍
Thanks for sharing...where does the water drain from washing of the potato during delivery and process..looking forward to see more.
That water drains out to a giant sand/ crushed rock subsurface water disposal field for lack of better term
Molly how are you connected to Bells Farms ? I see a lot of girls with Farm videos on here from all over USA and Canada. Which I think is good explaining how the production of what ever that farm is producing. How do you compare to the potatoes growers in Idaho? Do you send potatoes to Walmart or any other big grocery stores? Sorry for all the questions Well thank you for your time. Your generosity of information is gladly appreciated 😊
Hey Bill, thanks for watching and being interested! I married into the Bell family. I am learning to farm with them. We are a small farm compared to the big Idaho potato farms! But we do stay very busy and love what we do. We send sweet corn to Walmart and potatoes a a larger New England grocery store distribution center called Market Basket! If you have more questions let me know!
@@BellsFarming I have heard of market basket...my grandfather worked there in SoCal. Apparently there were two different Market Basket companies here in SoCal and the one on the East Coast is a third. I had to look it up to see if it happened to be the same company that was here years ago.
American Fries.
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It is interesting to see a potato operation. With those potatoes that yall had to pass up because of the water, is it possible to go back later to get them, or are they just considered a loss?
They are a loss. The water caused most of them to rot. Thank you for watching
1:31 I use a tape measure checking generators. I don't trust the gauges.
Hahahah the gauge in that truck is very unreliable! I’m not sure how much 4 inches of fuel would have lasted me but I knew it need to be topped off before I started the day. Thank you for watching
Come people share this beautiful lady,with your freinds ,she is a good lady to be following, thanks BigAl California,,, get in one of the shifter manual trucks ,so we can see you shift gears ok that would get some more subscribers, thanks
As always thank you Al !
Is there a market for those rocks? I would expect so if they were sorted by size.
People do buy rocks, we’ve got our hands full enough with the potatoes though haha
Will you harvest the rye, or disk it in ? I saw the guy plugging a cord into your truck after you backed up to the unloader, was that to power the trucks conveyer belt ? Thanks for the video.
We will till the rye, currently we only use it as a cover crop. Yes about the cord. The conveyor belt is electric, good eye!
You got them into the bins. Now how do you unload the bins?
Coming soon!
Good morning 🌄 hello 👋🏾 how you doing your still working with removal of potatoes and before winter closing soon?? how you still working on your go or stop being before winter closing 💬💬🤔🤔🤔🙄
Hey there good morning! The farm has finished potato harvest, I’m a little behind on making videos because we are so busy on the farm. But harvest went really well
Interesting videos. What is your favorite white or yellow potato ?
I like whites better. Yellows make good baked potatoes but my favorite it’s mashed :)
Hey Molly, one question I had, you said you plant winter rye after your potatoes have been harvested to help with erosion over the winter. Now, do you just plow that under in the spring or is the rye used for anything? Also do deer feed on that rye in the winter? Be safe, Dan
We just plow it under, I try to catch it before it gets to tall, makes it easier to chop up with the disc. You know, I really don’t know if they eat it. I’ll have to ask the guys if they have noticed that before. I would think they might eat it while they can get to it before the snow covers it.
Rye is a nitrogen fixing plant. Pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere and adds it to the soil via it's roots. Plowing it under puts all the nutrients back into the soil to make it more fertile. And the plants are digested by worms and zillions of micro-organisms and they deposit their waste (manure) further enriching the soil.
I see that you have a considerable amount of capital investment in equipment and buildings.
Yes there is. But this farm has been in operation since 1937. And has slowly been upgraded.
I’ll take 10 pounds!
So how long are the good for from ground to shipped out?
We keep them about a year!
The culverts are for ventilation?
Yes they are
Why do you use the black ADS pipe in between the potatoes?
Those are for air flow to the bottom of the pile of potatoes. It helps keep the potatoes fresh until we wash and package them
Do you ever grow purple potatoes?
No, I kinda wanted to try some just for fun! Haha
Great videos Molly. I enjoy your enthusiasm. Do you have any sites of your own? Are there any dairy farms near you?
Hey Jeff, I don’t do alot of social media at this point. Something I can try to work on. There are some dairy farms not to far from the farm. Our friend raises beef cattle, he is the closest one to us.
I appreciate you taking time to respond. I am a milk tester in northern NY State. Has your weather been mild?
@@BellsFarming
No problem, I’m very happy to reply to comments. I’m happy people are interested enough in the videos to leave comments. The weather has been good. I think today is going to be like 70 something! But cold front moving in soon.
Have you always been a farmer or marry into it? We are low 60's today and cold front moving through tonight.@@BellsFarming
I married into it. My husband is 4th generation
Drainage tiles in your future?
We have some in a few different fields. This year was abnormally wet!
@@BellsFarming After I posted that I wondered if you were just share-cropping that field. We had a dry spring, wet July, dry August and so so Sept here SW of Chicago. Where is your farm?
@@leefury7 we have property in Auburn, Lewiston, and Durham Maine
@@BellsFarming Maine? Potatoes from Maine? Who knew? LOL. Spent my honeymoon in Maine, almost 50 yrs ago. Thx for your reply. Hope you had a great holiday.
@@leefury7 Your welcome! I hope yours was great too! Thank you again for watching :)
Your a a Sharp looking lady!?
Thank you for the compliment
Your welcome
Are you dressing up for Halloween?
Not this year, everything going on with the shooting kind of put any Halloween activates to a halt this year around here. Next year I plan to!
I forgot about that and my prayers are with you all.@@BellsFarming
You get snow? We got a few inches.@@BellsFarming
@@jeffreysmith7210 frost today! No snow yet. Jeff where did you say you live?
I live in northern NY due east of Lake Ontario, so we get heavy lake effect snow. I am 40 minutes from Canada.(Ontario)@@BellsFarming