Potato Farming in Ireland ** Documentary by Videos of Irish Farming Life

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @russellrlf
    @russellrlf 4 роки тому +15

    I love these videos. It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland.

    • @VideosofIrishFarmingLife
      @VideosofIrishFarmingLife  4 роки тому +1

      Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for commenting!

    • @jeksixten5751
      @jeksixten5751 2 роки тому +1

      I have Incan descent this is Amazing to see how important potatoes to other countries...

  • @patrickcodd7010
    @patrickcodd7010 3 роки тому +8

    As an Irish man living in Australia i find your videosios so very interesting. God bless your work and. God speed the plough.

  • @peteacher52
    @peteacher52 2 роки тому +7

    Helps to make sense of the relentless slog that was growing potatoes manually, fishing from currachs and maintaining a modicum of comfort that was life on the isolated Blasket Islands before 1920.

    • @ЕкатеринаЗакора-с2т
      @ЕкатеринаЗакора-с2т Рік тому +1

      Lord God, please help not to take the land from ordinary farmers of Ireland, their children cry, they handed out a lot of food to charity, treating everyone, look at their dark faces from the sun and strained hands. Thank you very match.

  • @bwghall1
    @bwghall1 4 роки тому +18

    spud picking in the 1940s. and diving between rows when a plane came over just in case it was the Germans. all the women shouting dive for cover, us kids loved it.

  • @Meanfidler
    @Meanfidler 3 роки тому +3

    Very good video, thank you.

  • @robertstewart3638
    @robertstewart3638 4 роки тому +8

    Thanks that was very interesting to see how it’s changed from when I grew potatoes in the 70s

  • @paulbeech7276
    @paulbeech7276 4 роки тому +6

    Love it...Picked spuds by hand in the early 80s November time....must of been 14.

    • @VideosofIrishFarmingLife
      @VideosofIrishFarmingLife  4 роки тому +3

      Thanks Paul, Glad you enjoy it. We have a video specifically on gathering spuds coming up in a few weeks.

  • @parlainthtownie85
    @parlainthtownie85 4 роки тому +2

    This made me so hungry. I had potatoes for lunch and now after watching this I want potatoes again.

  • @michaelgrogan
    @michaelgrogan 2 місяці тому

    Love it. Well done. From Kildare

  • @gburahbondo2948
    @gburahbondo2948 3 роки тому +1

    I love Ireland

  • @eilissmith8591
    @eilissmith8591 4 роки тому +4

    Great story, makes me want to pop up to the glens of Antrim, then over to the causeway coast.

  • @SurprisedAlbatross-op4ik
    @SurprisedAlbatross-op4ik 9 місяців тому +1

    Very very good and interested in it all very good

  • @maryamzakariya47
    @maryamzakariya47 4 місяці тому

    It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland

  • @stuartf2946
    @stuartf2946 4 роки тому +6

    I really enjoyed this video and continue to catch up with the rest. The farmers do work so hard, even with mechanisation it is still a very long day for them. I am an avid potato fan and thank the lovely Irish for producing such great quality potatoes.

  • @shinawillmn
    @shinawillmn 3 роки тому +2

    Very interesting and informative.

  • @donalfinn4205
    @donalfinn4205 4 роки тому +6

    Very interesting I must say. I love potatoes and it’s great to see these agricultural videos.👍☘️

  • @duncanosborne4871
    @duncanosborne4871 4 роки тому +3

    My dad worked on a farm in the uk they grew peas and potatoes, i can remember seeing the crowds of women arriving in the mornings picked up by the farm in the land rovers too pick the peas or potatoes i have done that as well.
    Its ashame that nowadays the old ways have given way to mechanisation, as with so many people being made redundant due to the pandemic it would of given loads of work too locals

  • @joseduarte176
    @joseduarte176 2 місяці тому

    More videos, please! 🎥

  • @stephenross1581
    @stephenross1581 4 роки тому +2

    Very informative and interesting video, thanks for posting, Stephen

  • @ChefEarthenware
    @ChefEarthenware 4 роки тому +2

    I enjoy these videos, thanks.

  • @blameusa7082
    @blameusa7082 4 роки тому +2

    i love these videos.

  • @listairgin
    @listairgin 2 роки тому +1

    Great informative video, thank you. 👌

  • @liveweathermike8714
    @liveweathermike8714 3 роки тому

    Very interesting video on Irish potato farming keep up great work with these informational films

  • @dougcarroll9623
    @dougcarroll9623 4 роки тому +4

    I remember picking spuds in quarter tonn boxes got 7 pound per box boy was that hard work I could only manage 2 in a 12 hour day

  • @charlesyoungblood1402
    @charlesyoungblood1402 2 роки тому

    Outstanding Video and very educational .

  • @Daytona2
    @Daytona2 4 роки тому

    Good to see, thank you.

  • @rebelcounty2078
    @rebelcounty2078 4 роки тому +2

    Great Videos. Very Interesting. 👍

  • @ronaldlucas5360
    @ronaldlucas5360 Рік тому

    Enjoyed

  • @alanmitchell7322
    @alanmitchell7322 Рік тому

    very interesting vidio

  • @lenscap8925
    @lenscap8925 4 роки тому +1

    Was the prognostication of the end of potato growing in that area correct? If so, what is the crop now, or are there houses on the land?

    • @thomasstrong6632
      @thomasstrong6632 4 роки тому +2

      The gobshite (farming expect) was as most experts tend to be, very wrong.

  • @jasvindrasidhubrar3829
    @jasvindrasidhubrar3829 2 роки тому +1

    Very very informative and intresting video! 🇮🇳

  • @abeonthehill166
    @abeonthehill166 2 роки тому

    But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....?
    A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour .
    Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour.
    How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ?
    If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ?
    If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ?
    Regards.......Abe

  • @debbiegamon1232
    @debbiegamon1232 3 роки тому

    Why is life changing so dramatically. In three years no potatoes grown here?

  • @arthura.applegatejr.7145
    @arthura.applegatejr.7145 Рік тому +1

    I don’t understand why JD is the most prominent when James Oliver had a plow works 10 years before Deere‼️

  • @MichaelTaylor-fk7mn
    @MichaelTaylor-fk7mn 4 роки тому +2

    Like it

  • @diamantschwarzmet
    @diamantschwarzmet 3 роки тому

    Interesting see the stones used as a drainage. In Germany they are carried away and not used for anything.

  • @Cypher791
    @Cypher791 4 роки тому +1

    Chip Inspector... i was born for this job =D

  • @markward6076
    @markward6076 Рік тому +1

    During the great potato 🥔 blite. Ireland grew more than one food crop that should have saved them from starvation.

    • @patricksheridan7899
      @patricksheridan7899 Рік тому +1

      They forgot to tell everyone that the crown took the rest of the food.

  • @joshjerrome8227
    @joshjerrome8227 4 роки тому +3

    Did the potatoes survive and were they kept farming in the north ?

    • @VideosofIrishFarmingLife
      @VideosofIrishFarmingLife  4 роки тому +3

      Hi Josh, Yeah we're still farming potatoes in the North.. Thanks for the comment

  • @SqueakyWheelMakesNoise
    @SqueakyWheelMakesNoise Рік тому

    Interesting I subbed.

  • @rudrakshpainuly1294
    @rudrakshpainuly1294 3 роки тому +2

    Atleast Ireland still have their potatoes even after the worse potato famine cuz of the Brits.

  • @redeye9140
    @redeye9140 4 роки тому +2

    Good ole Irish potatoes, good for the body, good for the soul.

  • @swrtsolutionsinc.1092
    @swrtsolutionsinc.1092 3 роки тому

    Improvements to both quality and quantity of potatoes grown over SWRT Solutions Inc. subsurface membranes have been demonstrated by research completed at Michigan State University.
    ➢ 59% more tubers per potato plant on irrigated SWRT.
    ➢ 38% greater leaf area per potato plant on irrigated SWRT.
    ➢ 35% greater potato tuber yields, 395 cwt/a on irrigated SWRT.
    ➢ 33% better specific gravity of potatoes grown on irrigated SWRT.

  • @greggroome2791
    @greggroome2791 Рік тому +1

    🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏👌👌👍👍

  • @jeksixten5751
    @jeksixten5751 2 роки тому +1

    Same thaime"

  • @Improveng1
    @Improveng1 2 роки тому

    Great video and great commentary. It's a big thumbs-up and a sub from me.

  • @bsanders7061
    @bsanders7061 2 роки тому

    Great video. Way too many ads.

    • @tonymurray814
      @tonymurray814 2 роки тому

      I got premium on utube. No adds at all for $10 a month. Best money I ever spent!

  • @brucemiller8109
    @brucemiller8109 3 роки тому

    This film must have been done in the 1990's because the cost of a JD or Ford 135 Horsepower Tractor is 145,00.00USD. Every thing keeps going up.

    • @tdolan500
      @tdolan500 Рік тому +1

      From the plates on the vehicles its definitely after 2002. Maybe around 2004.

  • @johnperry5102
    @johnperry5102 Рік тому

    why did you have a fammin, didn't you grow other crops besides potatoes, didn't you have cattle, sheep, goats, chickens

    • @patricksheridan7899
      @patricksheridan7899 Рік тому +2

      The english crown took the rest of the food for themselves, history convienently left that out

    • @geraldneary5758
      @geraldneary5758 3 місяці тому

      Thoes were stolen by the British solders and taken to England.

  • @kirkbrandt8143
    @kirkbrandt8143 3 роки тому

    an gorta mor sorois sorai de anam 🙏

  • @sddfksdfsjs
    @sddfksdfsjs 3 роки тому

    The homie Lne

  • @cs-rj8ru
    @cs-rj8ru Рік тому

    You're not gettin me chips!

  • @MrjackieG
    @MrjackieG Рік тому +2

    I thought the potato famine was caused by the British army seizing the potatos and stealing them

    • @geraldneary5758
      @geraldneary5758 3 місяці тому

      They stole other food, and 2 million died and 2 million flead the Country. The population went from 8 millions to 4 millions.

  • @ikyist
    @ikyist Рік тому +1

    Haha no way I'm from Ballymena

  • @splishsplash9036
    @splishsplash9036 4 роки тому +2

    tò many advert breaks to keep my interest on the film so switched off after 20 minutes

  • @nonyadamnbusiness9887
    @nonyadamnbusiness9887 4 роки тому +2

    Stayed 5 minutes, left in the second advert break.

  • @jimfix9846
    @jimfix9846 4 роки тому

    Tatos tatos growing tatos

  • @amn2760
    @amn2760 Рік тому

    POV: It's year 1845

  • @christopherdavies752
    @christopherdavies752 3 роки тому

    U make potatoe growers look bad

  • @glenvillesmall8684
    @glenvillesmall8684 3 роки тому

    To many adds, greedy channel.

  • @Aut0five
    @Aut0five 4 роки тому

    its a pity that irish potatoes tasty so nasty. Must be the peat soil.

    • @Timberdoodle197
      @Timberdoodle197 3 роки тому

      Your arse sir

    • @geraldneary1948
      @geraldneary1948 3 роки тому

      He's probably gay or something.

    • @davidnyc487
      @davidnyc487 2 роки тому +1

      You obviously never had Irish potatoes, because they are the best.

  • @vinnitca1990
    @vinnitca1990 Рік тому

    Хорошо что я увидел это видео ! это эще одна страна которую я не хотел бы посетить.