Im a potato farmer in central Michigan and we have a similar process except we use two 6 row winrowers and pull 12 rows of potatoes into the center and then our harvester follows behind. We have around 3300 acres and we grow seed corn for pioneer and corn sold to be turned into e85. We grow soybeans and wheat.
Your video takes me back to childhood days in Carleton County, N.B. when we actually "picked potatoes" for 2 cents a barrel. Thankfully the potato harvester was invented and I worked for a farmer through my teen years on the harvest hauling 5 ton bulk truck loads to the potato house for storage. Good days - hard work - lots of fun.
Ryan, you are "In the Zone" now with your videos. I love seeing the other crops, and your drone work, editing, and music have become superb! Great stuff!
Great video, this is America, I wish all those American college hating snowflakes would watch videos like this and realize what this country does. We are great!!!!!
hi ryan im from the Netherlands and here the process of potato harvesting is a bit different btw if you ever have the chance to go to europe or the Netherlands you should go and watch how farming works here and btw very cool and learnfull video
Well it not much different it depends on the farmer mostly. Back in the 90's you had farmers using the newest equipment on one field,on a other field you would see the exact same equipment you see in this video and in another field you would see people zitting on a harvester going real slow wher the people sitting where doing the sorting.
I am from Idaho and actually just literally 10 miles from where spudnik started, and I have a few things to compare. 1. I don’t know if it is just the fact those are going to be processed into chips or not but here, our spuds go directly to a warehouse to be packaged for your table. If the digger operator was ever caught dropping the spuds from that high, his brother (boss) would chew him out so bad because of the bruising. When we use our 18 wheeler, we get it right up to the digger so the bend in the top of the boom can put all the first spuds in the bottom gently. Alol the 10 wheelers have a side d’ore that folds down for the first 100 yards or so so the spuds aren’t just dropping from 10 feet above. 2. Around here they plant around may, and harvest end of sept beginning of October. It is so big we get 2 weeks out of school so kids can help drive truck and do the final cleanings. 3. When we harvest, we kill off the vines and then mow them when they are dead so the potato’s are the only thing coming in, except for the few small vines and heavy plants. I’m not trying to dig or critique their way. Like I said, I don’t know of it is different for potato chips. Just some differences compared to us that I noticed.
These are chip potatoes so bruising isn’t as big of an issue because they are a denser potato so that way when they are sliced thin they don’t fall apart and we don’t kill the vines because then the skins would set making it harder for the chipper at the factory to chip em
Thanks for sharing. I worked on a farm and we use to pick them by hand and put them in a burlap bag. Looks like somethings change for the better. They had a farm stand where the sold potato chips and I would spend my pay on chips they just put in the bag. Chips are delicious either way.
Potatoes were a big business for a while outside of Spring Green in the sandy Wisconsin river bottom land. My dad, a retired farmer, ran the scales weighing the trucks. Thanks!
Ryan I understand you have your own farm and need to take care of things there. But I wanted to tell you I have really enjoyed the series on the other farms have visited.
Drive by this farm all the time. It's just 4 miles down the road from my house. I grew up on a dairy farm where we rotated wheat, soybeans, and corn so it's interesting to see the different crops that get grown down in this area.
Impressive operation! We use to plant potatoes on our family garden that was huge! Grandpa would come over with his Shaw du-all garden tractor with a spade an dig numorous trenches an the rest of us would drop a seed potato about a foot apart. Than grandpa change to tapered disks that covered them up.
Great video Ryan. It's good to see how different forms of farming get done. We have 1000's of acres of what we call muck here in central/western Ny. Mainly onions and potatoes
Just finished digging spuds here in Idaho. We averaged 450 sacks an acre. Main difference is we prefer rotation out of hay since potatoes are high nitrogen users.
Sadly most planting is all around the same time. As you know. So when people are planting corn others are most likely planting potatos, sugarbeets, etc. So i dont think ryan will have the time during planting season
About an hour south of the mint farm in Indiana they grow a lot of tomatoes for Red Gold near Elwood, Indiana... my other brother-in-law used to drive trucks hauling tomatoes out of the fields to the plant there... basically they were these special low-sided side-dump semi trailers that they WASH the tomatoes out of the trailers... The harvesters are somewhat similar, but of course they don't dig the plants up, just cut them off and then separate off the tomatoes from the vines, stems, and leaves... the tomatoes themselves are pretty small and hard, "processing" tomatoes, not "table tomatoes" like you'd eat fresh... Of course by the time they're cooked down and pulped and made into ketchup with all the other ingredients that make ketchup, it doesn't matter... when chopped or crushed and canned to make canned tomatoes, or tomato sauce, they work fine, but they'd be pretty lousy on your sandwich LOL:) They grow potatoes, green beans, cucumbers, and sweet corn for canning in northern Indiana as well. Later! OL J R :)
being in northern maine where they do potatoes for french fries and hasbrowns as well as some chips, i see the regional difference in how they are grown, we cant plant right now, 4+ feet of snow still on the ground and our harvest is end of oct into nov. the harvesters used look much different and up here they have people on the harvesters clearing rocks and other junk off. having unloaded many hundreds of thousands of pounds i can say the tater you had in your hand is tiny but for chips huge ones arent great, its interesting to see thanks for doing this video
This was great to see. Potato Farming is big in our area (New Brunswick, Maine and PEI (Prince Edward Island), but I am always working during harvest and never get to see (October(ish)). Love the older trucks in the field, but mainly the Superliner Mack.
There are a lot of potatoes being thrown back onto the field. My guess is there's too much material going through the harvester. Over in Europe farmers spray the leaves so they die and dry out. Or they 'mow' the leaves off prior to harvesting.
Great video, very interesting. It is interesting to see how other areas do things. Where I am from if we loaded potatoes like that every load would be rejected because of bruise. We basically harvested the same way but our trucks had beds that the side would lower and when you started out the side would be down and the loader would be lowered to the very bottom of the bed and the as the load built up you would raise the side of the bed and then complete the load. Never drop a potato more than 6 inches. Of course we were raising for the fresh market and stored them all winter also.
Yep, big difference between "table potatoes" for the fresh market and "canning" or "processing" potatoes for the fries and chip industry, where they're processed almost immediately. Bruising rots table varieties and damages their appearance and value short term, and "table" varieties are often much softer and more fragile than typical "processing" or "canning" varieties... They grow Red Gold tomatoes here in northern Indiana as well and those things are like a rock when they're in the field and ready to be picked... they look like a tomato but smaller and harder than any table tomato, and the flavor only really comes out when they're cooked into ketchup or crushed or diced and canned... Later! OL J R :)
Was really interesting Ryan, theres alot of moving parts or shafts that could go wrong if a bearing went out. When I was driving truck I hauled potatoes into Chicago and they were made into chips but I don't really remember where I picked them up at, but guessing maybe in Michigan cuz I hauled cucumbers out of Southern Michigan to Chicago to be made into pickles and hauled the finished product to Sysco a food distributor. I hauled to Chicago one, down by Indy, bu Cleveland, a place by Rochelle Il. Madison Wi., Sioux falls SD, Oklahoma Ok. Omaha Ne. Picking cucumbers by machine into semi is quite a operation to pick, clean sort and bottle and pkg and ship to distributor wherever. I love digging fresh baby potatoes as when we had a big garden on the farm we wouldn't have less than 250 to 300 potatoes plants and we would start digging in July and have fresh potatoes for supper or breakfast.
When I drove for a potato farmer about 18" of the side of the box fliped down hydralicly so that you could lay the conveyer low into the truck bed to reduce brusing.
That's got to be the happiest Duece and a Half in retirement. It's saying...look at me...I'm picking up potatoes like a BOSS! 40 years AFTER I was originally designed for.
That’s what I’m used to lol Only vegetables grown up here potatoes,cabbage ,turnip,carrots and beet are the most common only corn fields I seen were on vacation or UA-cam 😂
Some of the potato Harvesters that they have in my area here in Wyoming County New York start self-propelled and they take up the entire width of a state highway!
Loved the drone shot straight above the harvester. You could watch everything at once. These videos are great. I think it would be cool if you showed a veggie plate of food. Each time you pick one up the video cuts to a sped up process of the harvesting process.
I was at United Super Market in January looking at baker size that were price at 99 cents each wrapped in plastic. My bother in law is a potato breeder...he showed me how trucks were being loaded with the most beautiful spuds for $2.50 per cwt out of storage. 15 years later Prices sure are higher now!
My dad used to say that tattie picking devices like these and earlier ones were witchcraft until one season we were struggling and he gave in and accepted help.
We always kept our boom as close down to the truck as possible to avoid bruising. I guess because these are fresh processing it doesn't make any difference.
very good video Ryan it would have been nice if you would have put a link to their Channel because we can't search for it it won't come up potatoes are delicious even though I've seen this procedure before here in Florida it's still cool to watch thanks for sharing with us on how Farms work
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.
Im a potato farmer in central Michigan and we have a similar process except we use two 6 row winrowers and pull 12 rows of potatoes into the center and then our harvester follows behind. We have around 3300 acres and we grow seed corn for pioneer and corn sold to be turned into e85. We grow soybeans and wheat.
Love the old 5 tonner getting out in the field... shows just how innovative farmers can be
You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!
The best thing about raising potatoes on our farm is home made French fries and chips! Thanks for the great video! Liked before I even watched!
you get tired of eating em after a few days , trust me xD
john dowe oh definitely lol that’s when you are making every potato product under the sun 😂 I love potato pancakes
Thanks for the tour on the potatoes farms and the mint farm, keep up the great work!!
Your video takes me back to childhood days in Carleton County, N.B. when we actually "picked potatoes" for 2 cents a barrel. Thankfully the potato harvester was invented and I worked for a farmer through my teen years on the harvest hauling 5 ton bulk truck loads to the potato house for storage. Good days - hard work - lots of fun.
We love that you are showing different farmers and what they grow.
Very good video, really like the old military road tractor. Thanks for taking us along - - - good job
Ryan, you are "In the Zone" now with your videos. I love seeing the other crops, and your drone work, editing, and music have become superb! Great stuff!
David, I agree. These videos of other farms are really great to educate! Thanks Ryan!
You're right. The music is very good. Don't see that often on UA-cam.
Our bountiful land. Blessed above all others.
I am from Vincennes and help Will and John’s family with potato harvest every year.
Deere Man cool
Great video, this is America, I wish all those American college hating snowflakes would watch videos like this and realize what this country does. We are great!!!!!
Great video Ryan! Thanks for showing us "How Other Farms Work!"
Thanks to all the farmers growing our food.
Really digging this video.....I love potato chips.
I see what you did there.
Nicely done.
Wow
@@andrewinbody4301 - ya Andy is quite a spud if you haven't watched his channel yet!
These guys help feed America, hats off and a salute.
I like that old mack superliner that they got!
I’ve enjoyed your last two videos on mint harvest and potatoes. Each one had content that was interesting. Keep up the good work.
Thanks: John and Will!
hi ryan im from the Netherlands and here the process of potato harvesting is a bit different btw if you ever have the chance to go to europe or the Netherlands you should go and watch how farming works here and btw very cool and learnfull video
Well it not much different it depends on the farmer mostly. Back in the 90's you had farmers using the newest equipment on one field,on a other field you would see the exact same equipment you see in this video and in another field you would see people zitting on a harvester going real slow wher the people sitting where doing the sorting.
I am from Idaho and actually just literally 10 miles from where spudnik started, and I have a few things to compare.
1. I don’t know if it is just the fact those are going to be processed into chips or not but here, our spuds go directly to a warehouse to be packaged for your table. If the digger operator was ever caught dropping the spuds from that high, his brother (boss) would chew him out so bad because of the bruising. When we use our 18 wheeler, we get it right up to the digger so the bend in the top of the boom can put all the first spuds in the bottom gently. Alol the 10 wheelers have a side d’ore that folds down for the first 100 yards or so so the spuds aren’t just dropping from 10 feet above.
2. Around here they plant around may, and harvest end of sept beginning of October. It is so big we get 2 weeks out of school so kids can help drive truck and do the final cleanings.
3. When we harvest, we kill off the vines and then mow them when they are dead so the potato’s are the only thing coming in, except for the few small vines and heavy plants.
I’m not trying to dig or critique their way. Like I said, I don’t know of it is different for potato chips. Just some differences compared to us that I noticed.
These are chip potatoes so bruising isn’t as big of an issue because they are a denser potato so that way when they are sliced thin they don’t fall apart and we don’t kill the vines because then the skins would set making it harder for the chipper at the factory to chip em
Thanks for taking the time to show these different crops.
Thanks for sharing. I worked on a farm and we use to pick them by hand and put them in a burlap bag. Looks like somethings change for the better. They had a farm stand where the sold potato chips and I would spend my pay on chips they just put in the bag. Chips are delicious either way.
Great video and thanks for helping feed America 🇺🇸👍
Potatoes were a big business for a while outside of Spring Green in the sandy Wisconsin river bottom land. My dad, a retired farmer, ran the scales weighing the trucks. Thanks!
Thank you for making videos thank you for teaching people how to farm
Potato farmer from Manitoba here. Nice to see you spreading info about what we do. Keep it up! 👍👍
Ryan I understand you have your own farm and need to take care of things there. But I wanted to tell you I have really enjoyed the series on the other farms have visited.
Drive by this farm all the time. It's just 4 miles down the road from my house. I grew up on a dairy farm where we rotated wheat, soybeans, and corn so it's interesting to see the different crops that get grown down in this area.
Impressive operation! We use to plant potatoes on our family garden that was huge! Grandpa would come over with his Shaw du-all garden tractor with a spade an dig numorous trenches an the rest of us would drop a seed potato about a foot apart. Than grandpa change to tapered disks that covered them up.
Another educational video. Love them.
Love the old Mack superliner!
Very interesting! Thanks Ryan! Keep making videos like this one showing different types of crops and how they are grown and harvested!
Awesome,. Thank you for sharing your video..
I’m a potato farmer from Florida and this video is getting me exited for harvest! And I know John!
Where, I grew potatoes for 25 years near Hastings
James Methvin I’m in Hastings
@@jdmoosetracks4670 Do you mind saying who you work for?
James Methvin we grow potatoes for frito lay
@@jdmoosetracks4670 More specific, Parker brothers, Danny Johns, Who?
That’s pretty impressive how clean the potatoes comes out the end, no clay or toppings from the potatoes,
That’s Double L for you!!
@@AntonioRodriguez-dp8ny not sure what that is
Great videos,thanks to all?👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video Ryan. It's good to see how different forms of farming get done. We have 1000's of acres of what we call muck here in central/western Ny. Mainly onions and potatoes
Just finished digging spuds here in Idaho. We averaged 450 sacks an acre. Main difference is we prefer rotation out of hay since potatoes are high nitrogen users.
Are you going to the chip factory to see how they make them
Maybe he needs a new channel: How Chip Manufacturing Plants Work?
Ryan, this was awesome. Everyone has seen how corn, soybeans, and wheat is harvested. I hadnt a hot clue about potatoes. Good vid!
Nice video Ryan, Very familiar with the process myself. It's a very labor intensive crop. Should video the planting process.
Sadly most planting is all around the same time. As you know. So when people are planting corn others are most likely planting potatos, sugarbeets, etc. So i dont think ryan will have the time during planting season
About an hour south of the mint farm in Indiana they grow a lot of tomatoes for Red Gold near Elwood, Indiana... my other brother-in-law used to drive trucks hauling tomatoes out of the fields to the plant there... basically they were these special low-sided side-dump semi trailers that they WASH the tomatoes out of the trailers... The harvesters are somewhat similar, but of course they don't dig the plants up, just cut them off and then separate off the tomatoes from the vines, stems, and leaves... the tomatoes themselves are pretty small and hard, "processing" tomatoes, not "table tomatoes" like you'd eat fresh... Of course by the time they're cooked down and pulped and made into ketchup with all the other ingredients that make ketchup, it doesn't matter... when chopped or crushed and canned to make canned tomatoes, or tomato sauce, they work fine, but they'd be pretty lousy on your sandwich LOL:) They grow potatoes, green beans, cucumbers, and sweet corn for canning in northern Indiana as well. Later! OL J R :)
being in northern maine where they do potatoes for french fries and hasbrowns as well as some chips, i see the regional difference in how they are grown, we cant plant right now, 4+ feet of snow still on the ground and our harvest is end of oct into nov. the harvesters used look much different and up here they have people on the harvesters clearing rocks and other junk off. having unloaded many hundreds of thousands of pounds i can say the tater you had in your hand is tiny but for chips huge ones arent great, its interesting to see thanks for doing this video
This was great to see. Potato Farming is big in our area (New Brunswick, Maine and PEI (Prince Edward Island), but I am always working during harvest and never get to see (October(ish)). Love the older trucks in the field, but mainly the Superliner Mack.
Potatoes farms in my area spray the plants to kill them and dry them out then they’re harvested. Nice light looking soil.
Paul Hudson same here in Idaho.
Appreciate these guys doing what they do!
That 5 ton pulling was awesome
I sure do miss that sweet smell of the earth digging potatoes. ‼️ I miss the 1945 EH Mack Grandpop bought second hand from Forsgate Farms ‼️
Now I want some chips!! Great vid Bry!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God for farmers!!!
I just watched this video and am hungry for some potato chips! Thanks man!
There are a lot of potatoes being thrown back onto the field. My guess is there's too much material going through the harvester. Over in Europe farmers spray the leaves so they die and dry out. Or they 'mow' the leaves off prior to harvesting.
Very apeeling video. You’ve probably never had so many eyes in the field while you were recording.
Bad Dad jokes there!
Ryan could not have picked a better name for his channel
Tater's Precious... I lived in Evansville all those years and never realized those Charles' Chips came from just up the road there.
Nice to see how this is done industrially..
Great video, very interesting. It is interesting to see how other areas do things. Where I am from if we loaded potatoes like that every load would be rejected because of bruise. We basically harvested the same way but our trucks had beds that the side would lower and when you started out the side would be down and the loader would be lowered to the very bottom of the bed and the as the load built up you would raise the side of the bed and then complete the load. Never drop a potato more than 6 inches. Of course we were raising for the fresh market and stored them all winter also.
Yep, big difference between "table potatoes" for the fresh market and "canning" or "processing" potatoes for the fries and chip industry, where they're processed almost immediately. Bruising rots table varieties and damages their appearance and value short term, and "table" varieties are often much softer and more fragile than typical "processing" or "canning" varieties... They grow Red Gold tomatoes here in northern Indiana as well and those things are like a rock when they're in the field and ready to be picked... they look like a tomato but smaller and harder than any table tomato, and the flavor only really comes out when they're cooked into ketchup or crushed or diced and canned... Later! OL J R :)
Awesome video Ryan
Great video, last time I dug potatoes, I dug potatoes many years ago on the farm. Granted only a few rows. but got families through off season.
Hey Ryan thanks for the variety of video’s, really enjoyed this one 👍
Nothing better than those potatoes straight out of the ground
I live in Washington and we grow them totally different. We just ordered a ploeger self propelled digger. It is going to be nice.
Grant county here😄
Michael C Me too
I was surprised to see the stalk so green at harvest.
Alot of people dig the chip stock green I no we do cause they will grow a little more every day let the little ones size up
Was really interesting Ryan, theres alot of moving parts or shafts that could go wrong if a bearing went out. When I was driving truck I hauled potatoes into Chicago and they were made into chips but I don't really remember where I picked them up at, but guessing maybe in Michigan cuz I hauled cucumbers out of Southern Michigan to Chicago to be made into pickles and hauled the finished product to Sysco a food distributor. I hauled to Chicago one, down by Indy, bu Cleveland, a place by Rochelle Il. Madison Wi., Sioux falls SD, Oklahoma Ok. Omaha Ne. Picking cucumbers by machine into semi is quite a operation to pick, clean sort and bottle and pkg and ship to distributor wherever. I love digging fresh baby potatoes as when we had a big garden on the farm we wouldn't have less than 250 to 300 potatoes plants and we would start digging in July and have fresh potatoes for supper or breakfast.
When I drove for a potato farmer about 18" of the side of the box fliped down hydralicly so that you could lay the conveyer low into the truck bed to reduce brusing.
Cool trucks, great video!
Tks Ryan, that was great too see!
That's got to be the happiest Duece and a Half in retirement. It's saying...look at me...I'm picking up potatoes like a BOSS! 40 years AFTER I was originally designed for.
That isn't a deuce and a half. That's a five ton. i drove one in Nam,
its light work for that m55
@@johndowe7003 < Aye, John , that it is.
@@jimwilloughby yeah hah, i wish i had a m55 with a fifth wheel. ill settle for my duece for now...
@@johndowe7003 I love that truck. Such a brute looking machine.
That’s what I’m used to lol
Only vegetables grown up here potatoes,cabbage ,turnip,carrots and beet are the most common only corn fields I seen were on vacation or UA-cam 😂
Sure beats digging by hand.
was eating potato chips and then i saw this on my home feed, had to watch😂
another awesome videos getting to see another type of harvest for the first time. thanks ryan
In the 60 to 80s we raised potatoes for Snyder of Berlin fun memories
JMR agriculture farm machine very nice
Some of the potato Harvesters that they have in my area here in Wyoming County New York start self-propelled and they take up the entire width of a state highway!
Loved the drone shot straight above the harvester. You could watch everything at once. These videos are great. I think it would be cool if you showed a veggie plate of food. Each time you pick one up the video cuts to a sped up process of the harvesting process.
I was at United Super Market in January looking at baker size that were price at 99 cents each wrapped in plastic. My bother in law is a potato breeder...he showed me how trucks were being loaded with the most beautiful spuds for $2.50 per cwt out of storage. 15 years later Prices sure are higher now!
My dad used to say that tattie picking devices like these and earlier ones were witchcraft until one season we were struggling and he gave in and accepted help.
Ryan, if you ever hear of someone growing hemp or brussel sprouts, both are very interesting harvests.
We use to kill our potatoes a couple weeks before digging so they wouldn't hold onto the vine.. It also helps the skin toughin up so it's harder skin
i like how they explain why you need to plant something after
If all of that orange equipment was made within the last 15 years my dad probably painted it at the manufacturer, it's cool to see it in action.
when I was young we used to pick potatoes straight into the bags, by hand off the ground.
The new Farming simulator 21 looks great!
That’s a badass superliner
Awesome interview!!
We always kept our boom as close down to the truck as possible to avoid bruising. I guess because these are fresh processing it doesn't make any difference.
Wow, Harvest is a lot more like corn that I had thought.
I love potatoes
Great video Ryan. You sure make interesting. Keep it up!
very good video Ryan it would have been nice if you would have put a link to their Channel because we can't search for it it won't come up potatoes are delicious even though I've seen this procedure before here in Florida it's still cool to watch thanks for sharing with us on how Farms work
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.
Great Video ryan!
Where in Michigan harvest starts around September and the crop is sprayed to kill the plant more than in this video
Hmmm chips !!
Guy in orange tee shirt awesome hat 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿
You should have got a ride in that old army truck!
That was SOOOOOO awesome to see.
Born and raised in Illinois, now living in North Idaho.....I feel oddly connected to this video.