MOST ENJOYABLE POTATO HARVEST I'VE EVER HAD

It's taken 22 weeks but we are finally harvesting our potatoes.

[@keithpadbury9818]

Maccas $5.25 (aud) per 150g serve (large fries). 6 serves per kg = 400 litres of water and that doesn't include the HUGE volume of water used in washing and processing.

[@JoshsFarmingMoments]

WOAH well that means Maccas charge - $35.0/kg and we get as a farmer $0.48/kg! I worked out in our case we irrigated 3,100,000L/ha and yielded 66,200kg/ha so this equals 46.8L of water for 1 kg of potato. Cheers for watching!

[@thebeautifulones5436]

How many ha do you have to grow to make this viable? How much irrigation water per ha per crop?

[@JoshsFarmingMoments]

Great question. Viability is difficult to say but I think growing for a processor like Simplot or McCains you really need to growing at least 4ha. Water work on 4-6ML/ha.

[@patrickstephens1164]

Rough estimate on how much water potatoes need, it’s around 400 litres of water per kilo of potatoes