Another 7 million pounds of potatoes! Potato harvest day 10

[@JamesWest-iu4jx]

I just picked up a ten pound bag of potatoes at my small town grocery for 1.99 . There is some fairly large ones in the bag . ( not as some of your JUMBO'S ) but I was glad and think of you all when I pick um up. Thank you all for feeding us . I thought that was a really good price and assuming because cleaning out the last of last year and bring in the new years ? Move um or lose um ? But I do think of you all and I know you can't give them away and there's the balance to stay in business . So keep keepn' on and I'll get these ett up real quick and go back and get some more , even if the price is back up I know the work and the worry. By the way ,back in the 60's and 70's when me my mom and dad AND my 15 brothers and sisters were at home we brought two 50lb. bags every two weeks , and a 50lb. of carrots, a bushel basket of apples, bananas by the box , dozens and dozens of eggs, gallons and gallons of milk, bread by the.....

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I bet having 15 brothers and sisters you guys ate a lot of food. Thanks for supporting the potato industry and I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

[@kathyhennigan7807]

It amazes me that so many people are actually interested in their food production. They also ask very good questions. I can't think of another channel where I actually read all the way down to the bottom because the info is so good!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel. I always try to respond to every comment.

[@zachashcraft6243]

I can hear and smell the drone footage, and I love it! 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Perfect! Glad you enjoyed it

[@bette-annflood835]

Drone videos are amazing

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you like them!

[@TheRandallraplee]

What a good video. Informative and interesting. Good music with excellent editing. Thank you RMF!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adoptionsgreat]

Those conveyors of yours we bought this summer worked awesome for us sped up our unload time a lot! Thanks for upgrading your equipment so we could upgrade ours haha!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad it worked out for you. Our new stuff is working great as well.

[@steveanderson2881]

Keep up the good work brother! Those are beautiful potatoes!!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks! Will do!

[@WallyTschetter]

Ur making some awesome video and u have got a good team work with ur employees

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@BoCorbit]

That drone footage was great! Only half way done? Wow!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We’re a little over half done

[@BoCorbit]

@@RockyMountainFarmer This is amazing, huge operation! Those potatoes are huge, never seen them that big!

[@rodchristensen644]

Great drone footage, I really liked that

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bertbinsbergen7549]

Beautiful potatoes.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@JoeWoolley-rf5fq]

Awesome video. !!!! It’s probably feels good to come to end of harvest . What a relief . How long can those potatoes stay in a cellar if they have to. ????? Thanks again for sharing . 👍👍👍👍👍

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We stored last year‘s crop for an entire year. They just got done taking them out a week ago. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

[@dnawormcastings]

Its mind blowing how big of set up is 🇳🇿❤️

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tuberNunya]

Always nice when the manufacturer forgets what sprockets he used when he built the machine.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Right

[@DavidRansom-xt8io]

Now that twine in the weeds for whoever bush hogs next summer can get it wrap up in there bearing. Lol.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It will get disked into the ground

[@stuartatkins5425]

New to your channel. Have you explained how your potatoes are used? Do they go to supermarkets, or to potato chip factories, or to French fry plants, or what? And have you done a video of what goes on in the sorter? Really enjoy your channel.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So all of these potatoes will be made into potato flake that will then make instant mashed potatoes, and Pringles. The sorter table really only sorts, dirt and vines out of the potatoes. They do make sort tables that size the potatoes so you can get the smaller ones out but we keep all of them. I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel.

[@BruceBergman]

What variety are you growing? burbank Russets are French fries and potato chips, and large Baking potatoes. 12:14

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These are russet Rangers and will be made into potato, flake

[@bruce02]

love the videos , any way to do a timelapse filling it ?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, you’re gonna love the next video you just wait

[@williamokeeffe9874]

Sunday dinner here spuds cabbage an bacon 😅 spuds are small here in ireland

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It helps to have good soil

[@chadlewis6197]

How fast are those harvesters going down the rows? Will the harvester have the capacity to go that speed when you add 6 more rows with another windrower? I am on P.E.I. and grew up on a large potato farm just down the road from Allen Potato Handling Equipments facility. It would have to be some dry to get rid of the dirt at those speeds.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Digging 16 rows I have to drop about 1 mph so I’d be going about 3 1/2. We are going 4.5 mph

[@John-nc4bl]

Thanks for another great video. How many acres of potatoes do you have-?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. We have 1300 acres.

[@MrKylekja15k]

You cut that piece of twine out of vine chopper, worried it might have damaged bearing, then you threw the twin back on the ground???

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I threw it in the weeds next to the field

[@fritzsue]

Just curious why are they stored for so long and not simply sold and bagged? I just can’t get over how many potatoes you folks are moving it amazing

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

All of our potatoes are sold to a processor so they store them until they need them for the product they are making and the reason why most fresh potatoes are stored is so that you can have a supply of potatoes in the stores year-round

[@ArthurFagan]

I was sure interested in who buys your potatoes You grow enough potatoes to feed America. 😂

[@ArthurFagan]

You guys sure make interesting videos. You should get an award.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@stevenk6957]

You seem to be dropping your potatoes a long ways an alot between Harvester and storage. Idaho potatoes must be a lot tuffer than Washington potatoes.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They are pretty tough these also aren’t going to stores as fresh

[@ileenmcminn2062]

What are you going to do for pickers starting monday?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We will just have less we still have all of our pipe movers that pick dirt clods

[@DavidRansom-xt8io]

Like to see a time lapse video of filling the cellar for about 50 feet or so.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I will have to see if I can do that

[@montepalmer713]

When you mention your cellers hold a certain number of bags, what size of bag are you referring to?

[@CameronChristensen-bv2tv]

100 pound bag or sack.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Each sack is 100 pounds

[@gregstone1306]

Can you get a build sheet from the manufacturer for your new equipment, to help with part numbers? Your new cellar equipment is great.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Each piece of equipment has a serial number and has a parts list tied to that serial number

[@richardpeter1935]

So you take the time to take the twine out and then just leave it in the field for the picker to pick up

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah I guess I did

[@RonguyAg-j4v]

What do you do with the potatoes when you run out of cellars? Is there a spot market for potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

If we run out of potato cellars to store them and we can’t find another cellar, we just leave them in the ground and work them up there’s nowhere we can take them. But we’ve luckily never had that problem. We almost had that problem last year, but we found some potato cellars to rent.

[@bigmackstruckstop9213]

Hey brotha,I gotta question,I bought a potato 🥔, and it had a rotten place and light pink place and just wondering about it, but I tossed it in the can, likewise I always enjoy your show 😊

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I suppose some of them are rotten that get in there. They look OK on the outside but not on the inside it happens. Glad you’re enjoying the channel.

[@bigmackstruckstop9213]

@@RockyMountainFarmer yeah,thank you for your comment and I appreciate it,I'll catch ya on the next.

[@ellisdando1061]

Nice one , how many pounds are you expecting to harvest this season?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It’s probably somewhere around 60,000,000 pounds but we will see when harvest is over

[@ellisdando1061]

@@RockyMountainFarmer wow ,that a lot of fries 🍟 .Hi from Germany.

[@jasonclark3127]

How more cellers you have left to fill and I hope you fill them all up

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We are about to move to our final potato cellar, and we should be able to fill it all the way up

[@johnkeynes8873]

G'day Tehran do you sell the potatoes and store for a client or sell later.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These are all contracted with a processor to make potato flake

[@ManMountainMetals]

And this is where the national potato chip stockpile is stored ladies and gentlemen. 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, kinda, these will be made into potato flakes, and then into various products

[@angus4202]

will the harvester dig without chopping vines if that vine beater were to be down

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It will, but we will lose more potatoes over the back

[@rogerembry4777]

They don’t keep that long at my house lol 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, you really have to control the conditions that they’re stored in. Another factor for them not storing that long is most of the potatoes you buy at the grocery store have already been stored for 6 to 8 months.

[@robertpace9511]

When I was a kid in the '60s, spuds weren't harvested till after the first frost. No chemicals, no choppers, mostly harvested by hand in the freezing cold. Junior and senior high schools had a two week break beginning the Monday after first frost. Pay was fifty cents a sack. I could do about 20 sacks a day. The Hispanic farm workers could do twice that. That probably explains why I ended up in broadcasting. 😅

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well now, if we wait till after the first frost, we’ll have a hard time getting them out of the ground before the ground is frozen solid. But the old ways of harvesting were definitely a lot more manual labor. It cannot be done like that anymore. You would never get them harvested.back then a farmer might have 40 acres they need to harvest now we have 1300.

[@tuberNunya]

I recall harvesting spud in the 60's by hand too. The tractor could dig one or two rows, I don't remember and left the spuds on top. Big baskets we used. Boy have times changed huh? And the leftards said we could never feed more people and we would starve. Fooled the effers eh?

[@robertpace9511]

@RockyMountainFarmer Yup, he had 60 acres. When they turned the fields I doubt we got more than about 60% of the true yield in bags.

[@ManMountainMetals]

The big ones are full of vodka 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I know you can make that out of these. I don’t know who does though.

[@angus4202]

how many fields you got left if you only got 3 big cellars left and youre filling them at this rate youre probbably gonna run out of room again

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

No, we have more than enough room. We might have lots of fields left, but they’re not very big.

[@Farmerboykevin]

wheres is this location

[@annmurphy5507]

Potatoes are grown in eastern and southern Idaho. Many YT farmers & ranchers only list their state because they don’t want strangers coming onto their property invading their privacy.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

This is in eastern Idaho

[@peifarmer1]

Looks some dry.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It is a little dry

[@rogerbredeweg1063]

When the potatoes vines freeze, don’t a few exposed potatoes freeze and cause a mess if you don’t pick those out?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They can

[@ajbennion1]

Can I come buy some potatoes from you??

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

You’re welcome to come glean the fields