Harvesting Potatoes: The Final Day and Equipment Roundup
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Join us on an exciting journey as we wrap up the potato harvest season! In this video, we’ll take you through the final day of harvesting our bountiful potato crop. You’ll witness the hard work, teamwork, and dedication that goes into this crucial farming task.
But that’s not all! After the last potato is lifted from the ground, it’s time to bring all the equipment back to the shop. We’ll give you an up-close look at the machines and tools that make this operation possible, explaining their functions and importance in the process.
Don’t miss this behind-the-scenes peek into the life of a potato farmer and the satisfying conclusion of a successful harvest. Like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated on our farming adventures!
Thanks for sharing. As a Florida boy (mid and north areas) I know a bit about peanuts, corn, beans and such but not huge potato or grain farming. Nice to know how my baking potato is planted, harvested and handled before shipment to my local grocery store. Lucky we live in such a grand and productive country! So glad you told us about the porta potties. Makes my day to know about health safety first.
Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
I wish our schools would show videos like this to the kids in all grades. We were very active in 4-H and were really dismayed to find out a lot of kids (now grown) had no idea where our food comes from. We raised pigs and cattle and all the kids participated in raising and butchering the meat and know the cycle. A lot of millennials think meat and veggies are produced in the back room of a grocery store. Loved the video.
I’m glad you liked the video. It would be great if this would be shown in schools I try to make them very educational. They are always clean and family friendly.
God what I would't give to have those big potatoes! great harvest.
Yes we get some pretty big ones
Just realise how long i have been followed you. Watching Ahao grow up, Dawang be fatten up and your baking skill level up over years has been one of my great joys.
Wow, thank you
Good luck finishing potatoe harvest
Thanks
Cha me sorprendió escuchar español lo hablas muy bien 👍
Yes, Christopher speaks fluent Spanish
I wish I had a sack of them potatoes .but I live in East Texas. I used to haul potato when I drove trucks .was a fun experience. I'm retired now .getting old now.
Sorry I can’t help you get a sack of potatoes. I’m glad your enjoying the videos
Sitting here watching this video while eating pork chops, green beans, and mashed russet potatoes from idaho. Love it
Sounds great! Glad your enjoying the videos.
I grew up around a couple small Pennsylvania farms that grew potatoes. I haven’t been around them for more than 20 years now, your videos definitely take me back.
I’m glad you liked the video.
I love watching and listening. Glad I found this farm. My other is MN Millenial Farmer.
That is awesome! I’m glad I’m considered up there with millennial farmer. I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos.
Awesome videos. Thank you for sharing. God bless all of our farmers.
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Just found your site and realized I've driven by there many times. Some family came from Firth and one of my fav. cafe's was in Shelly. I was born in 1944 and it's wonderful your father has been at it that many years. Wish I could get some of those taters but I don't drive very far anymore.
I’m glad your enjoying the channel.
I love to see a video of yall processing and baking them potato
I may have to do that
KUDOS TO YOUR DETAILS ON EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR OPERATION..
I try to make sure everyone understands what’s going on.
A history lesson. Back in the 50s Dad grew maybe 10 acres of potatoes, along with a variety of veggies! Seed spuds came from PEI, Irish Coblers. We cut the seed in the kitchen during the evenings. Rotate the spud to ensure each section had at least one eye. Planter was a 1 row, converted from horse drawn to tractor drawn. I was in charge of cultivating using a horse drawn single row scuffler. Disease and insect control was dusted on by hand on a dewy morning. Harvest was by a single row digger, also converted from horse drawn. The product was harvested by hand into 6 quart and bushel baskets, in sufficient quantity to be sold each day at the Toronto Food Terminal. Dad would take orders for the next day and we would harvest to meet the demand. On a good day the spuds would sell for $3 per bushel and 50 cents a basket. Labour was cheap. He had 3 kids and all he did for them was provide meals and lodging.
You know, I miss those days.
Herb
That’s an amazing story thanks for sharing.
Legend 2 vids in 2 days! Awesome content mate, it's so dam interesting to us city folk 👏 ❤
Glad you like them!
that has been done before, tie it down and don't look back! LOL
I HOPE YOUR HAPPY, FOUND YOUR CHANNEL A COUPE WEEKS AGO, IVE CONSUMED MORE FRICKEN TATERS IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS THAN I HAD IN A YEAR!! THOSE BIG ONES MAKE YOUR MOUTH EATER!!
Well, I’m glad I got you eating more potatoes. They’re really good for ya. Haha enjoy the channel.
Hey, mans, how a jibaro (country boy) drying slowly in NYC 🙃get some of those potatoes. Wow those potatoes look like home🤤.
You would have to come to Idaho and get some
Great video, I really enjoy learning about how different operations work around the country, this is a lot different than what we do out here in the corn belt. Out of curiosity, what variety are those massive potatoes?
Glad you liked the video, they are Ranger Russet potatoes.
Same as a McDonalds French fry
@@RockyMountainFarmer thanks
No problem
Glad you are getting new cellar equipment next year! cant wait to see the new setup. What about power? Are you going to use a generator?
We might need a generator because all the new equipment is 480 3 phase.
I ran the dualled up 8670 massey that pulled a sumo trio then quattro cultivator. Boss was never happy on it's performance so got matee in to tune and delete the government juice and it went from 80lts a hr to 60ish. Use to swap the bedformer and sumo up to 6 times a day to keep in front of 2 destoners if goong was good for them
It’s crazy how much more efficient engines get when you remove the government emissions. Makes you think that the government wants you to use more fuel.
@@RockyMountainFarmer specially when they want us to use less nitrogen yet have to spray in to exhausts?
@@RockyMountainFarmer always been a scania truck fan and had a 143 v8 punching the 500hp mark and mate got a brand new series 4 with same motor but had gov juice and it was a gutless heap doing same work so in came the tuner again lol. Same as rhe iveco powered case-ih magnum's just couldn't compete with the ol Cummins powered one's the the new fpt powered one's are great
Congrats on a great harvest. How do your lbs / acre compare to other potato growing areas in the country? Was this an above average year for y’all? Thanks! 😊
I’m not sure about other areas in the country but we were planning on 450 sacks per acre so 543 is pretty good for us.
Approximately how many sacks per acre were used to plant? And do you cut your seed or plant whole?
That's a lot of potatoes!! Yowsers!
Curious, what is sprayed on potato fields to kill the plants prior to harvest?
And, what are these potatoes used for primarily?
So we don’t spray anything we just stop watering them then chop the vines. These potatoes will be processed into potato flakes and made into Pringles.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Interesting. Here in PA the potatoes turn yellow. I assume they spray something because we're not irrigating here. And the whole field changes at once.
67,000,000 # of pringles? Wow! That's cool.
That’s interesting. Yes these will make a lot of Pringles
great
Glad you enjoyed
Now that’s a lot of taders. Do you have a problem with rodents getting into the storage sheds and if so how do you deal with them? I love potatoes I hope I’m eating some of your here in Montgomery Texas
We don’t have too many problems with mice sometimes they will get in, but they usually leave the potatoes alone
Enjoyed the video! Anywhere near nampa?
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. We are in Shelley
We can't even buy Idaho spuds in Coeur d' Alene most years. This year he price is twice so it's a sad deal.
Maybe next year, we will bring a trailer of potatoes boxed up up to Coeur d’Alene.
dope. are these conveyor belts self-made or where can 1 order them?
They are Spudnik and yes you can order them
How long will it take the processors to clean out your stored product? Is there a length of time the spuds have to dry before they get processed?
They usually have all of our potatoes out by the end of March, but sometimes it takes all year. When they go to the processor they are dehydrated, so they dry out at the processor.
What is the unit of measurement of a sac of potatoes?
1 sack is 100 pounds of potatoes
what temperature and humidity are best? And do they keep all the way until next years harvest?
We keep ours at 45 degrees and are always monitoring the humidity. And they can store for a year but the cellar needs refrigeration to keep them that long
Probably answered this before. What a sack of potatoes weigh?
A sack weighs 100 pounds
How long can your store potatoes?
You can store them for up to a year but we’d like to have them out of the cellars within six months because it’s hard to keep them cool in the summer.
What are the potatoes for? Fries?
These will be turned into potato flakes for Pringles.
@@RockyMountainFarmer sounds good keep up the good work!
@@RockyMountainFarmer sounds good keep up the good work!
Will do
Are any of the big ones hollow hearts?
Of the ones I’ve cut up and eaten I haven’t found any.
are they russets or sheppody?
These are russet rangers
@@RockyMountainFarmer OK cool.i worked for a farmer in north dakota that rasised sheppodies
I’ve never seen those
@@RockyMountainFarmer simular to a russet in size and shape.used to make fries at a plant in north dakota.i do not now for sure if they are grown as of this year.i have not been on the farm since 2011
That’s interesting
dry land or irragated?
Irritated. We live in a high mountain desert.
@@RockyMountainFarmer ok i thought so.
There are some dry farms around up in the mountains but they can only grow grain.
@@RockyMountainFarmer ok based on your yield i was thinking irrigated
Yeah I don’t think it would be worth it not irrigated. It would die before it produces anything.
Is a sack a 100 pounds?
That’s right
what yield per hectare ?🇵🇱
I’m not sure I know it was 543 sacks per acre. I don’t know what that converts to.
Jaki plon?
We ordered 543 sacks per acre
Can’t operate without a porta potty lol
Yeah seriously crazy
In a world of OSHA violations ✨✨✨
You don’t need OSHA when you have common sense