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  • Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
  • Take a look at our New Meijer Potato seed trial. Matt Ward visits Maine to see how his seed is growing.

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  • @db.mc2
    @db.mc2 Місяць тому +15

    Thank you Molly and Shane 👍🏻 Always great to hear from you my friends 😊 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you 🫶🏻 💚

  • @ty70359
    @ty70359 Місяць тому +16

    Best farming channel on U-tube ! 😊

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +5

      Thank you!

    • @alexs3447
      @alexs3447 Місяць тому +5

      @@BellsFarming yes you're the best Molly.

    • @realairplane261
      @realairplane261 Місяць тому

      Sure beats the grumpy farmer. He is god awful bad.

    • @Otherrandomguy42
      @Otherrandomguy42 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@realairplane261yeah he's one of those dudes that goes one of two ways old Andy, either his wife treats him like he treats all the rest of the Farmers on UA-cam she trods on him so that's how he gets his frustration out is to belittle and berating other Farmers on his channel. Or somebody needs to check and make sure how abused his wife is. Personally I think it's the latter she's probably scared to leave. The astounding part is there's 20 or 30,000 people out there that are just as bad as him cuz they enjoy his content.

    • @realairplane261
      @realairplane261 Місяць тому

      Good points about Andy Grumpy. I commented about his abusive language and right away he used his childish behavior to belittle me and my morals.

  • @gardnep
    @gardnep Місяць тому +4

    I was a seed production agronomist for a third of my working life. We would inspect fields by walking 10 m or yds of row and noting differences in plants. We would do 15 of those for every 10 hectares or 25 acres. With experiments it was necessary to sample 3 or 4 replicates of the variety. It was fascinating and engaging work, particularly when our bio magicians would analyse the numbers. Great to see food safety audits are still a thing and an interesting arrow to our bow when exports were required. Thanks for the video. The taste test never fails.

  • @michaelnaretto3409
    @michaelnaretto3409 Місяць тому +11

    That field is looking great!

  • @FloatingVillageLife
    @FloatingVillageLife Місяць тому +3

    You bring a wonderful mix of expertise and humor to your farming adventures, making the discovery of each potato variety a joyful journey. Your passion for agriculture shines through, inspiring others to appreciate the simple joys of farming life. And I am a floating village life from Vietnam.

  • @iguana9173
    @iguana9173 Місяць тому +8

    Excellent video for a late Friday night.

  • @northsaskguy7878
    @northsaskguy7878 Місяць тому +4

    Wow those are nice healthy plants, much bigger and bushier than the ones in my garden!
    Nothing better than fresh baby potatoes, I love them boiled with whipping cream and fresh dill and a touch of salt. A couple more weeks and I'll have some ready to eat too. Thanks for the video!

    • @brezzz0077
      @brezzz0077 Місяць тому

      Congratulations on 25k subscribers! You are doing a great job

  • @g.r.4853
    @g.r.4853 День тому

    Looking at the teaser photo and the title question, I instantly thought, "very nicely indeed!" then realized you meant that green stuff.

  • @daleberghorn6504
    @daleberghorn6504 Місяць тому +2

    Just started watching your channel love your farm yes farming is a beautiful life sometimes you had bad days but better days out weight bad days love the potato processing 😊

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому

      Welcome!!!! Thank you for watching

  • @Rhearipley-fd8xq
    @Rhearipley-fd8xq Місяць тому +5

    I love to watch .Thank you molly ❤

  • @johnmedici6655
    @johnmedici6655 Місяць тому +2

    It's amazing how much I've learned watching your videos Molly! You explain things to were I actually learn, and I'm not a very fast learner! 😅

  • @chuckyc6912
    @chuckyc6912 Місяць тому +3

    Mollie and Shane are the best great videos AWSOME work. Very informative

  • @stucook8622
    @stucook8622 Місяць тому +8

    Very interesting...thanks Molly 🐾🥔

  • @_Merica_USA
    @_Merica_USA Місяць тому +4

    Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!
    Love this channel!

  • @kenthoffman8548
    @kenthoffman8548 Місяць тому +5

    Hi from potato country in southern Colorado. San Luis Valley.

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +2

      Hey there! Thanks for watching :)

  • @garyfrederick7607
    @garyfrederick7607 Місяць тому +3

    Shane molly that was awesome thanks for the Ag education on spuds. wow who knew there was so much to know thank you hug hug for sharing awesome.this is better then all my college courses on growing things.

  • @edwardmarino2776
    @edwardmarino2776 Місяць тому +6

    That was very interesting Molly. I love to watch the different processes involved like field preparation, testing, new product, etc. etc. there is so much that goes into farming. I surely can understand why it is such a labor intensive field. Hope you and Shane had a great Independence Day celebration.

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you Ed! I hope you did too!

  • @beckyumphrey2626
    @beckyumphrey2626 Місяць тому +3

    The potatoes look awesome!!!! Nice.video.

  • @keithmcallister4917
    @keithmcallister4917 Місяць тому +3

    I went by the farm on the fourth we were going to Durham to visit some friends saw your tractor in one of the fields. Love fresh dug new potatoes that’s when they are the best. Looks like the new varieties are doing well. Hope you and Shane had a good Fourth of July.

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +1

      Hey Keith! Yes she is hanging out there, she might be going back to the big 100a field this weekend then home for a bath :)

    • @keithmcallister4917
      @keithmcallister4917 Місяць тому +2

      @@BellsFarming Nice ! How your tomatoes growing ?

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +1

      ⁠coming along I’ll do an update soon

  • @Incaensio
    @Incaensio Місяць тому +3

    Striking Lady 😍

  • @rickkearn7100
    @rickkearn7100 Місяць тому +2

    Damned potato bugs. As kids, my siblings and I would help our grandfather purge his potato patch. He'd put some used motor oil in coffee cans for us, to kill the bugs, and we'd walk along the rows having a contest to see who picked off the most bugs. About 3 or 4 times over the course of 10 days or so seemed to do the trick for the rest of the summer. Loved the drone shots, and, interesting to see your very studied approach to assessing your crops in the early stages of growth. Great episode, as usual Bells Farms! Cheers.

  • @Appleman1965
    @Appleman1965 Місяць тому +4

    Great video. I set up the food safety for Bauman Orchards here I Ohio the paper work is crazy to sell to Walmart plus we ha 25 full time employees and 25 seasonal. To train its a big job keeping it strait. I know what your going thru. Cheers

  • @bradleymcclintock7771
    @bradleymcclintock7771 Місяць тому +2

    New potatoes and green beans YUMMY ❤.

  • @oldjedi8529
    @oldjedi8529 Місяць тому +2

    At first I thought we were flying over cotton fields in the Carolinas 😅. Great seeing the variety work of different species, nice video as always, Mollie, and thanks for sharing!

  • @jimpoteet1
    @jimpoteet1 Місяць тому +2

    your farm is great... here, in west tx, it is `dryland farming` ( cotton, sometimes wheat)cotton planting is may 20-june 20 the little cotton plants- i am told, just need one or so rains to mature and make cotton bolls.. ( i`m a retired foreign car mechanic, not a farmer, but i`m listening and taking notes...) thanks for your excellent videos

  • @larry323
    @larry323 Місяць тому +2

    Good morning Molly! Thanks for the video to enjoy with my first cup of coffee! All that paper work looks hard and boring but I know it's a,very important part of your farm. I would love to try your sweet corn and potatoes but I live in Indiana so I don't think that will happen. Thank again and take care. Larry

    • @larry323
      @larry323 Місяць тому

      Hi did you want to discuss something? I'm not the greatest on a computer. Larry

  • @archiescott2229
    @archiescott2229 Місяць тому +1

    You are doing great on the farm and great on you tube! Keep up the good work!

  • @jasonglenn4965
    @jasonglenn4965 Місяць тому +1

    Looks like they're growing well. 👍

  • @lolsson7
    @lolsson7 Місяць тому +1

    Interesting to get to know additional things that go on "behind the scenes". As a non-farmer I had no idea about what the food safety regulations entail, thanks for sharing.

  • @jillesboer
    @jillesboer Місяць тому +1

    Nice to see that you also grow potatoes from Meijer varieties. I also grow varieties for Meijer. Soprano, Melody, Musica, Lady Anna, Lady Forte, Lady Rosetta, Orchestra, Lady Claire, Lady Jane, among others. Lady Rosetta, Lady Olympia. I think Musica, Melody and Orchestra are nice varieties for you.

    • @shanebell9589
      @shanebell9589 Місяць тому +1

      I would like to try some melody, maybe next year. Rock looks really promising, and acoustic. Hopefully we will grow more of them next year

  • @lukeduke3001
    @lukeduke3001 Місяць тому +2

    i have two Kiwifruit Orchards in new Zealand you definitely have the passion for what you are doing id give you a job any day

  • @alkennedy1124
    @alkennedy1124 Місяць тому +3

    Soon , you will be top notch teaching all about potatoes and ways to grow them , right, thanks BigAl California.praise Jesus Christ grace amen 🙏 Molly , good job.

  • @joecarlson6428
    @joecarlson6428 Місяць тому +1

    Always quality videos. My daughter planted 10 lbs of eyes and harvested about 100 lbs. one purple variety was magic mollies.

  • @georgecrinnion2131
    @georgecrinnion2131 7 днів тому +1

    All those people digging up potatoes and no one thought to bring a bag to hold the potatoes LOL 🥔

  • @paullhommedieu2795
    @paullhommedieu2795 Місяць тому +3

    That's a nice field of potatoes!

  • @heartproblems2727
    @heartproblems2727 Місяць тому

    Another great Video Molly. Always learn something new from these videos. Looking forward to Harvest season. Have a fun safe summer.

  • @rickrick7309
    @rickrick7309 6 днів тому

    That's interesting thankyou from northeast Michigan

  • @paullhommedieu2795
    @paullhommedieu2795 Місяць тому +2

    Keep up the good work!

  • @timr1406
    @timr1406 Місяць тому +3

    Cool drone work at the start! Gotta turn that calendar in your office it's not April any more :-).

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +3

      Hahah I think there are like 5 in that office.

    • @hughmarcus1
      @hughmarcus1 Місяць тому

      Sign of a busy place, when nobody is watching the calendar

  • @colingunn4822
    @colingunn4822 Місяць тому +3

    Cool drone footage......

    • @colingunn4822
      @colingunn4822 Місяць тому

      ua-cam.com/video/RX6PfHjiz-M/v-deo.html

  • @NSResponder
    @NSResponder Місяць тому +1

    What I'm getting most often in my local store is a variety they call "Yukon Gold", and they're great baked. I only season them with garlic butter, and they have a bit of a sweet flavor.

  • @joshb6470
    @joshb6470 Місяць тому +1

    I love a good selection of potatoes, not sure the differences between them all but I know it's there

  • @user-fy9zx8xu9g
    @user-fy9zx8xu9g Місяць тому

    The fields are beautiful and the job you do is remarkable…

  • @johnelliott5923
    @johnelliott5923 Місяць тому +2

    Great job love you guys!

  • @jondarrah6829
    @jondarrah6829 Місяць тому +1

    Shane and molly your potates are looking great , cant wait to see the corn and beans.

  • @bobkopf227
    @bobkopf227 Місяць тому +1

    Hi Molly, I worked on the retail side of produce my entire working life so I know all about the food safety regulations. And yes you do have to stay on top of that stuff. I would be interested in your opinion on each of those new varieties ( taste, texture, etc.) thanks for sharing this video and all of the very interesting knowledge you and Shane provided us.

  • @ericchristman4713
    @ericchristman4713 Місяць тому

    Ya'll so much fun to watch !!
    Your laugh is infectious....I laughed along with you 😊

  • @mikemorgan4726
    @mikemorgan4726 Місяць тому

    Wow doesn't seem that long ago you were just getting the fields ready and look at em now!! ❤❤❤

  • @Gary-wm7vi
    @Gary-wm7vi Місяць тому

    Awesome video. Loved to see the different varieties at the early stage. Can't wait for the next one. ❤

  • @randysmith8515
    @randysmith8515 Місяць тому

    Very nice and informative video, Molly and Shane 😀. I look forward to your videos. Have an awesome day 😃!

  • @jstokes57
    @jstokes57 Місяць тому +2

    Molly, fyi I was born and raised in Urbana. Joined the Air Force and saw the world. Now living in Alabama!

  • @oldfella4096
    @oldfella4096 Місяць тому +1

    Some very interesting motorcycling photo's in your office 😊

  • @domingogalanramirez8416
    @domingogalanramirez8416 22 дні тому +1

    Que bonita están las patatas ❤ese es el fruto de vuestro trabajo suerte un saludo ❤❤❤

  • @brianjordan5560
    @brianjordan5560 Місяць тому +5

    Hi folks!

  • @josephgravel4721
    @josephgravel4721 Місяць тому +2

    You have the best potato’s, had some of your potatoes at Cormier, Dog House! Great fries! Keep up the good work!! Great videos!!

  • @keithvanpolen9049
    @keithvanpolen9049 Місяць тому +1

    Another very interesting video!!

  • @LRS34625
    @LRS34625 Місяць тому

    Good luck with the new potato varieties, so far so good.

  • @user-TOOLMAN
    @user-TOOLMAN Місяць тому +1

    those potatoes are really growing fast.nice

  • @bobblenuts
    @bobblenuts Місяць тому +1

    Very interesting video, I'm always interested in the research end of farming but no experience with potato's. As a consumer, I love potatoes but for some reason I only like white potatoes. Really hate the newer varieties of golds and yellows for some reason. Thanks Molly & good luck with your paperwork! 👍 You always have educational as well as entertaining content.

  • @yurizhivago4848
    @yurizhivago4848 Місяць тому

    I worked in a hospital and you have WHMIS as well as a ton of Government Policies and Procedures to deal with. Every 4 years we had to be re-accredited and that was a MAJOR operation so I get what doing paperwork is all about. Nice to see the drone footage and keep up the great work.

  • @bobstedman5232
    @bobstedman5232 Місяць тому

    Hey Molly, love your videos. I know what you are going through with the food safety. I use to work for a company that made plastic bags. Some of the bags were made to hold food. So we had to go through an inspection every year. We were constantly doing something that was required to keep the equipment clean.

  • @matkremzar5474
    @matkremzar5474 Місяць тому +1

    Ok I've waited long enough ... I'm ready for the Bubba Gump recipe segment . Lol ... looking good!

  • @davidbugg6990
    @davidbugg6990 Місяць тому

    Molly every year with the first little potatoes and carrots my mom would boil them and make a white sauce to put them in. So good. I can taste them now.

  • @phillipcole3068
    @phillipcole3068 Місяць тому

    Nice drone shot intro! Why do your videos make me crave potato chips? Those new potatoes are great in a buttery garlic sauce!

  • @kenmartin9227
    @kenmartin9227 Місяць тому +1

    Yeahhhhh....Washington! I live there

  • @melbytvenge
    @melbytvenge Місяць тому

    They are Really Growing Can't wait for harvest

  • @cheezst8ke
    @cheezst8ke Місяць тому +1

    I like to make potatoes and oinions with potatoes. Dice up the potatoes and dice up a yellow onion and fry them together in a frying pan with a little butter or olive oil. I know about food safety. I worked at a McDonald's back in the 90s and we had food safety procedures to follow and when I became a shift manager there I had to take a one day course on food safety and then take Servsafe food safety test at the end of the day to become food safety certfied because the shift managers were required to be food safety certified for that managment position.

  • @NSResponder
    @NSResponder Місяць тому +2

    I'm no expert of course, but that field looks pretty healthy to me.

  • @stevemccoy8138
    @stevemccoy8138 Місяць тому +1

    Very interesting video, OMG those tators are really growing. Thanks again for Sharing. 😊 PS ,I LOVE POTATOES 😅

  • @steelwheels327
    @steelwheels327 Місяць тому

    Now i want some pan fried potatoes , lumpy mash potatoes or French fries !!yum!!

  • @normanglussier6473
    @normanglussier6473 11 днів тому

    Ashes prevent Beatles. Plow ashes in the ground and it will prevent beatles from getting in your crops .

  • @jongoodson5676
    @jongoodson5676 Місяць тому +2

    Molly! A couple questions. First how do you protect the plants from those beetles? Secondly, how often, if any, does the food safety requirements change? The plants are looking great!

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +1

      Hey there, Dave will spray an insecticide to control the beetles. There no other way to control them. The food safety requirements do not change that often, maybe every 5 years they will tweak something a little

  • @WayneCoke
    @WayneCoke Місяць тому +3

    Molly will you guys spray for the beetle? Good looking plants.

  • @tarheelpatch3386
    @tarheelpatch3386 Місяць тому

    Love the drone footage

  • @DanPurdy1
    @DanPurdy1 Місяць тому

    Lots of good information as always.

  • @Torsee
    @Torsee Місяць тому +2

    Squishin Beetles!
    Love it!
    Was there a taste difference?

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому

      Coming soon! Haha they were all good. But I think they need to be a little bigger to a true taste test :)

  • @thomasr.miller5553
    @thomasr.miller5553 Місяць тому +1

    😁Witch tater makes the best FRIES ? Chips ? Baked ? I like a smooth buttery texture for baked taters. Tater bug spraying with a hover drone ? Great video . thanks

  • @rainman7992
    @rainman7992 Місяць тому +1

    thank god she is enthusiastic about being top notch clean. This is a good time to be OCD

  • @Arham7cheema
    @Arham7cheema Місяць тому +1

    This video was very interesting and informative your potatoes crop good instead that of Rocky mountain farmers and I notice that nodoby grow red variety of potatoes and by which company in Netherland you have agreement or choose seed because there are many hybrid potato company these varieties which you grow organic

  • @drl1204
    @drl1204 Місяць тому +1

    Neat to see the differences I'm varieties. Have you and Shane ever grown or anyone in state ever grown "Purple Viking" ?
    Back in Virginia few farmers grew them and they grow more chef size there. But not as many per plant. Not sure on storage lifetime. Just curious.
    Keep up the great job
    Enjoy y'all's day !

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you! No we have not grown any. I kinda what to try a purple potato. There is one called magic molly:)

    • @drl1204
      @drl1204 Місяць тому

      @@BellsFarming Molly, definitely "magical" : )

  • @cedricgates9976
    @cedricgates9976 Місяць тому +4

    what if anything can be done about those bugs short of pinching every one?

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +3

      Yes we will spray something on the fields to get them under control. But pinching them helps on a small sale lol 😂

  • @SuburbanDon
    @SuburbanDon Місяць тому

    They look good to me !

  • @DaveCollierCamping
    @DaveCollierCamping Місяць тому

    Amazing views

  • @Snarkapotamus
    @Snarkapotamus Місяць тому +1

    I am really curious what you did before getting married and becoming a spudtress. You sound very educated and detail oriented...just me being a curious boy!

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому

      I worked as a dental assistant primarily and I have always done some type of physical labor job, like stocking shelves stack potatoes hahah

  • @chrishann5714
    @chrishann5714 Місяць тому +1

    I need that Funks Hybrid sign in your office!!! I’m sure it was mentioned and I missed it but how do you measure yield with potatoes? By weight or bushels? And what is considered a good yield? Thanks for sharing

  • @deepsleep7822
    @deepsleep7822 Місяць тому +1

    Colorado Potato Beetles - they are a long way from home. Will the ducks and chickens eat them?

  • @gregr1672
    @gregr1672 Місяць тому +1

    Excellent video! How long in the ground where the trial potatoes he pulled up? It looked like good number of potatoes on the vines but how many will achieve size? Why are you trying Netherlands potatoes when Maine grows the best in the world already ? Kennebec is all I even plant anymore , everyone loves them. Katahdin are a close second .

    • @shanebell9589
      @shanebell9589 Місяць тому

      Those were planted early may I believe. Essentially we are trying to find a good yellow variety since we’ve had such poor luck with satinas past few years, so we’re trying to a bunch of new ones this year

  • @tubeDude48
    @tubeDude48 Місяць тому +2

    That was nice music. (you know who this is! 😃)

  • @jtrabajospescay6898
    @jtrabajospescay6898 27 днів тому +1

    Megusta el travajo del canpo manejo todo tipo de tractores ocupas ayuda

  • @rsonweb2060
    @rsonweb2060 Місяць тому +1

    A lot of difference in how the varieties grow. I was expecting you all to taste them raw so the flavor wouldn't be masked by cooking.

  • @MC-ns9ef
    @MC-ns9ef Місяць тому +2

    Do you supply potatoes to Frito Lay?

    • @BellsFarming
      @BellsFarming  Місяць тому +2

      We do not anymore. There was a time when we did. The Norwis white what he grow is a chipping potato

  • @Jdjd12288
    @Jdjd12288 Місяць тому +1

    Hi new to your channel. When you first plant your potatoes how do you control your weeds Here in Japan they use black plastic and the potatoes come up though the plastic

  • @phillipcollins9290
    @phillipcollins9290 Місяць тому

    Interesting. I'm looking forward to the beans and sweetcorn. Did you have a look at the link I messaged you about the Vredenburg (South Africa) potato farm?

  • @user-ep5bh9gq3k
    @user-ep5bh9gq3k Місяць тому +3

    멋져요

  • @rromero1318
    @rromero1318 Місяць тому

    This is my first time that I seen potatoes plants. Which is cool. So I’m guessing the potatoes will get bigger?

  • @Yorkie285
    @Yorkie285 Місяць тому +1

    Yikes! that's a lot of potatoes. How do you manage such a large workload?

  • @scottkrieger6386
    @scottkrieger6386 Місяць тому +2

    What state u in, have u heard about government in Oregon and Idaho about farmers losing there farms and water Idaho 500,000 acres cause of no water now.most potatoes farmers.

  • @Scrambler85
    @Scrambler85 Місяць тому +3

    She is the best thing on that farm

  • @user-ye4ef4mt3o
    @user-ye4ef4mt3o Місяць тому

    How do you control potato bugs? Like your videos.

  • @Blueriverfarms
    @Blueriverfarms Місяць тому

    What do you think of the new State of Maine Safety Food Act? In my own opinion: Maine Food Safety Act makes the Federal Food Safety Acts seem reasonable in comparison between them.