Giant potato competition! Potato Harvest Day 14

[@GhostSniper67]

😂 I bought a 10LB bag of your potatoes and there was 2 potatoes in it....😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Haha that’s the best way to do it.

[@stuartatkins5425]

Maybe on some episode you could do a history of how potato harvesting was done back in the day when your grandfather was running the operation so we could see how the process has changed over time? Really enjoyed the 'biggest potato" contest too.

[@mattpieper6539]

My family raised potatoes in the 1960s. The equipment changes I see are a different style of potato chain and more belting on the elevators otherwise just a lot bigger. Basically the same process. No herbicide for weeds so us kids spent a lot of days with a hoe in hand.

[@alfredmcintosh16]

What kind of potato are you raising?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I kinda did that with my grandpa last year

[@trbowlin]

Just a maintenance suggestion. Have you thought about getting a relatively inexpensive FLIR and using that while your harvesting. A quick look with a thermal camera at the equipment would show you hot bearings, electrical connections about to fail, high friction points where there shouldn't be any, tight chains burning up a sproket, etc. Just a thought. I have one for my cell phone and for 200 bucks it is really handy. I could see you walking through the cellar and scanning conveyors and pillow block bearings after the equipment had been running for a couple of hours and tagging hot ones for off season replacement. Plus, they are pretty fun to play with.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That’s a great idea

[@maineman11]

Congratulations on the 216 trucks!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@mattpieper6539]

One thing a video can’t give you is the awesome smell of a potatoe cellar.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Very true

[@ileenmcminn2062]

Especially the old underground dirt cellars.

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Looking forward to next week surprise, I'm sure it weill work out. Those sure are re some real BIG taters, 12.5" and almost 5# that's insane.....God Bless never seen and heard of a potato that big. When I was a kid in Italy 🇮🇹, in the 70s, we had potato harvest festival the 5 tiny suburbs ( 15 to 20 families ) kids would bring them to town for competition, to be judged by size and shape .After words they would fry them in lard, big ol party. The adults dancing to button boxes music and drinking open air bonfire till wee hour of the night. Great memories kinda bitter sweet, we harvest them by hand actually every thing we farmed was by hand cuz of topography,no tractors horses and mules no electricity and running water. We lived off the land like the Amish/hillbillies. In late 60s and 70s lot of us migrated to America, left everything behind for a better life in the land of opportunity. And now proud to be an American citizen. 🇺🇸 PS, sorry for the lengthy reply, when I saw your kids around as you were measuring, it sparked the memories.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks for sharing. That sounds like an awesome party

[@RonNoLastName]

Damn! I want some of thoes 13" french fries

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They are good

[@bigmackstruckstop9213]

Love ya brotha,maaan those potatoes are huge,I enjoyed your show see you next time😊

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@boe4448]

RNF, Great news on your great crop. I continue to enjoy your content, video, quality, editing. Thanks Boe 👍

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@BoCorbit]

Just amazing! Thanks for all your coverage!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks for watching!

[@GoldenPotatoFarms]

14:09 Your channel not only inspires but also provides practical knowledge on organic farming!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@paulhammond7489]

You have a fantastic operation there. Many thanks for documenting it for us all to follow along

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@phillipburns8818]

Oh you will hit that record and more 🎉🎉 Remember records are made to be broken

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Maybe one day

[@TheChessUniverse]

6.6 million pounds of taters. Leapin' lizards that's a lot of tater tots!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

And that was just one day

[@ManMountainMetals]

​@@RockyMountainFarmer I got 13.5 million pounds with my napkin math.

[@hsvkid]

66,000 sacks in one day. I bet it’s cuz our beautiful American flag stayed up all day and the pole didn’t break. Nice goin.

[@jamesducey2685]

When the spud crew has an USA flag waving it is completely indicative of wonderful American agriculture!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks!

[@Patrickreillyjames]

You can't beat good equipment too get the job done good luck and God bless you and your family from across the pond in England

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

You got that right. Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeffreywolfe3369]

Clifford a beast.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Sure is

[@jasonclark3127]

Congratulations

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@bobcotton4651]

Just incase you were interested , that #4-1/2 tater would produce 72 - 1 .oz bags of chips

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nice good to know

[@kentgill2669]

That’s huge .that is crazy

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It is pretty big

[@Skunky281]

4 pound potatoe! Im thinking how that would look in the 5# bag I buy. Thanks for the video!

[@alfredomarotta6604]

😂😂👍👍💪💪🗽2 potatoes standing on end. 🤷‍♂️

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@warrenstrawbridge2254]

Well done😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@petermorse9928]

thats a lot of spuds wow!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Sure is

[@jasonhowell532]

After watching you dig I really want a steerable boom digger. I would be less pissed off at the truck drivers. I am still using a DoubleL 853. Have you ever hit a truck bed with the boom of Clifford the big red digger?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I think we did once this year but not too bad. The new ones have a breakaway boom that snaps back

[@Thaddy62]

How much waste do you expect doing a Harvest? 2 to 4 % or higher

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, the number of potatoes to get left in the field is probably less than one percent as far as potatoes that go bad or don’t get used almost none. The only thing that does happen is if they store them for too long before taking them out, they will shrink a little bit, but I’m not sure how much percentage that would be.

[@Ros-co]

Hi👋 B.C. Canada here. At my local Walmart recently I purchased two (2) potatoes for $4.28 @ $1.99 lb. Never thought I would see the day when I pay $2.14 per spud. I know you farmers are not getting any more for your crops. You should. It's disgusting what retailers are doing to us😢

[@MrThisIsMeToo]

Congrats on paying twice the going rate for a pound.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That’s crazy. We only get 8 bucks for 100 pounds

[@Louis_agri_belge]

Bonjour, c'est assez impressionant de voir les différentes technique d'un pays a l'autre moi personellement je produit aussi des pommes de terre sur une surface de 800 acres pour arracher on possede 2 automotices AVR puma 4 je n avais encore jamais une machine comme la votre. Vous stockez l'ensemble de votre production chez vous ou il y a certain camion qui partent directement du champ à l'usine? Bonjour de Belgique😊🇧🇪🍟

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We store all of them because the plants are shut down for maintenance. Glad you enjoyed the video

[@copoaffl]

One of the many reasons why I left where I worked in the potato field was because they sabotaged my Digger, I had it well, since I was the one who maintained the 2 that we used on the ranch, but the funny thing is I just had something break down or break, but not the other Digger, and I also maintained it, but the funniest thing is that when the son of the owner of the plant where he worked first went, that's when something went wrong. By pure chance, the mechanic who had come in again was also there, and when I left, he brought in his family. Greetings and good day, very good videos.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sgtmark8844]

Slugterra a slugslinging cartoon hero

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nice

[@coresoldier1]

that would be cool if it works out

[@Leofred2000]

A five pound bag of poatatoes lasts me several weeks 😲

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These would last you a while.

[@cwalton56]

I want some!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Who wouldn’t

[@donmedford2563]

I think you need a bigger hydraulic motor on Sid so it will transport faster.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It needs something

[@angus4202]

i was tellin my mom about these giant spuds and she said "damn if i still owned my resturaunt id order a few loads and make some giant baked potato and fries"

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That would be awesome

[@colthofer3752]

Question on those big potatoes do you ever run into some that are hollow?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I haven’t found any

[@arjan8278]

I'm from the Netherlands. Here in Europe we have the metric system. Can you let also now your yields in tong per acre. We don't have sacks. We use hectares and tons. 1 acre is 0,4 hectare. But how many a sack is? Noe idea. Thanks in advance

[@jannes6974]

1 sack is 100 pounds. 100 pounds is 45 kg. So the 110.000 sacks cellar is about 5000 ton. And their best yield of 630 ( I believe) sacks of potatoes per acre last year translates to just over 70 tons of potatoes/ hectare. And 450 sacks/ acre is a bit more than 50 tons/ hectare. Ik liep ook tegen dit probleem aan :). Die Amerikanen met hun rare zakken aardappels per acre.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That sums it up nicely thanks for the comments

[@TheRange7]

Holy smokes guys, huge congrats are in order. I was sitting here listening to the numbers at the start of the video, and all of a sudden it hit me. That's an astonishing day, absolutely amazing. Back to the rest of the video now. LOL Cheers y'all.Edit to add, that winning potato was the largest I've ever seen. The original Morton's of Chicago way back in the late 70's and early 80' always served massive baked potatoes as an optional side. I'm guessing they were about 2 to maybe 2.5 pounds per. Being young back then, I could put down a 20 ounce strip and a big baked tater with no issues.These days, no chance...LOL. Great video guys

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It was an amazing day. I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@joelhenderson5404]

Call it newby

[@jamesducey2685]

How do these potatoes get used? Sorry to ask but my ignorance is vexing me... I do suspect that the big spuds are not sold as nearly foot long french fries.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These will all get turned into potato flakes and then Pringles

[@rogerbredeweg1063]

Do you ever have hollow potatoes when they are that big?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I haven’t seen any in ours

[@DirectorFrisch]

can the potato sorter and piler not be towed?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They can but it takes alot to get it hooked up

[@warrenstrawbridge2254]

I'm a retired potato farmer in New Zealand. When you talk about sacks per acre, how much does a sack weight?? In New Zealand we work on tonnes per acre

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

A sack is 100 pounds

[@bryankiplah3900]

How many acres in total you are doing potatoes?

[@idahofarmer]

1,300 this year 1,200 next year

[@stuartatkins5425]

So for us city slickers what does a 'sack' mean? Is that 100 patatoes or what? Thanks.

[@alfredomarotta6604]

100 lbs. Sack

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

100 pounds

[@kentgill2669]

Do your kids eat a lot of potatoes

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah we do

[@dnawormcastings]

🇦🇺❤️

[@Ed_in_Md]

How much is a “sack” of potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

100 pounds

[@LynnKorte-ve4qf]

Are they a GMO variety?

[@idahofarmer]

No

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nope

[@davidjanis1997]

What is the price of potatoes per cwt?

[@idahofarmer]

$7

[@robertpace9511]

Is the trend of casual diners staying home hitting your price per sack? Since your buyer is a potato flake producer, have their demands been affected by slowing trends? I am also curious whether you have a fixed seasonal contract or sell on demand a wholesale market rate. Inquiring minds, ya know. Call the sorter the Inch Worm based on its mph. :-)

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I know things have slowed a little but they can store the flake for a while they also contracted less potatoes this year and everybody’s yield is down

[@bertbinsbergen7549]

You are contingent in the amount of sacks, how many pounds in a sack?

[@idahofarmer]

100

[@danglaus2248]

What is sax a 50lb bag?

[@Jacques-z1k]

100#

[@danglaus2248]

@@Jacques-z1k iĺ

[@danglaus2248]

@@Jacques-z1k I like 👍

[@danglaus2248]

Sorry

[@bobcotton4651]

I know you guys have so much free time ( just kidding) , but you really should consider selling direct to the consumer. You might be very surprised of the amount of orders you could receive. You could get much more for them and I really think there would be a big interest in fresh potatoes. Maybe ship them priority flat rate , just a thought.

[@MrThisIsMeToo]

FOUND IT. The KZbin expert that knows better than a multi-million dollar farm operation. Shipping potatoes USPS is comical.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have considered something like that.

[@bobcotton4651]

@@MrThisIsMeToo Whoa, looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of bed or didnt have their bottle yet .

[@JimNicholson-q5v]

How many pounds in a sack

[@alfredomarotta6604]

100

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

100 pounds