One potato cellar already full! Seven more to go

[@anthoneyking6572]

Wow So Lucky them bits of Metal don't really mess the machine up Great Vlog as Always Thanks

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Sometimes they can break the chains or bend the links. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@DouglasYoung-tx8xf]

Put a lot more air in them little tires and they’ll stand up taller and stand on the center more and make them easy to turn. Make sure they get maximum air the tires.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, we probably should check the air. Thanks for the tip.

[@PNW_Hawk]

Man, you have been pumping out the videos the last week or so, and I am here for it!! Keep up the great vids!!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you like them! I’ve been trying to get one out every day during harvest

[@berthiggins2335]

We raised potatoes and tobacco on our farm in CT. When tobacco phased out, we went to potatoes exclusively. We broke u-joints on the trucks when starting up in soft ground with part/full loads. We went to the practice of backing up three feet or so and then going ahead to take advantage of momentum and the firmer ground just in front of the truck. Your operation is very impressive. I especially like the crop rotation and utilization of what you have (manure) to enhance the fields with grains grown before potato usage. Our yields (50 years ago- I'm closer to your grandfather's age) were 200-250 "sacks" per acre without the rotation capability. Our last crop was extremely good in the field but a tropical storm blew thru in early September with 7 inches of rain just when we needed the skins to set. Looked good at harvest but had MUCH rot in the warehouse. Dumped more than we sold for table stock. Convinced me that I needed to find a job that paid me every Friday! Finally sold the farm in 2019.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That would be a good practice to do in soft ground for sure thanks for sharing your story. I can’t imagine getting 7 inches of rain right before harvest. We used to grow russet Burbank and they would only yield about 300 to 350 so it might just be the variety I’m sorry you had to sell your farm. I know farming is hard and it’s hard to make money. It’s crazy that the people who keep everyone alive get paid the least. I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel.

[@Tscaperock]

Man that metal will put a kink in your day! That really slows you down! Thanks for sharing!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, metal really slows you down. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@leecampbell320]

Loving all these videos, breakdowns are always a part of farming.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you’re loving the videos. Breakdowns are just a way of life and farming. I don’t care what brand of equipment you have. It will always break at some point.

[@bertbinsbergen7549]

Great video's, like it a lot. Better than tv.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it. That means a lot.

[@Arham7cheema]

Amazing work 👍 at night i watch your videos but couldn't give feedback due to out of order i write comment but could not reach the weather is fantastic these videos remind me your previous year of harvesting and planting you are harvesting and we are preparing preparing soil for potatoes and we get rain due to which we are late to plant i watch this content of harvesting late and i want to watch early but as i was busy in preparation good luck your explanation is awesome

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’m glad you’re able to watch it. We are not doing any fieldwork right now because it’s all hands on deck to harvest after harvest is over we will be doing fieldwork until the ground freezes.

[@michaelpardue2400]

Good look Potatoes

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@d0garg]

🤯How much work goes into harvesting and storing potatoes! WOW👍🏻

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, it’s a lot of work. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@tuberNunya]

Boy that sure seems like a lot of potatoes, but I suppose there are a lot of people eating french fries and chips. Feed the world Brother, and I will pray it doesn't rain on you.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, that’s a lot of potatoes but it’s only a fraction of how many we will harvest. We still have seven cellars to fill. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@Machines85]

good day my friend 😉

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

You too

[@paulhammond7489]

I guess it would not be a harvest if there was nothing to fix. Hope the truck parts can be found quickly to get back up to speed. Was amazed how quickly you filled that first cellar. Keep on keeping on, and take a spare battery pack for the angle grinder next trip to the fields, as it looks like you might need it again soon :)

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well I’m glad you enjoyed it. I hope our trucks get working soon as well. We have been digging a lot of potatoes per day yesterday we dug 50,000 sacks in one day.

[@alfsimmonds1569]

Great video and I like watching it. Our province has started (some already started early crops) harvesting potatoes and they are getting excellent yields. But the processing plants still have 10 million pounds to haul and it maybe until January til they are finished. You probably heard of the the processing plant here in the Maritimes, Cavendish Farms, or even seen some of their products because they ship to the U.S.And worldwide. Thanks for the video... Happy farming.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Hopefully your harvest goes well. I have not heard of those farms probably because I don’t buy too many potatoes. We just use our own.

[@jimpolk]

Really good looking taters.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I think so, too

[@robertreznik9330]

Last time I saw bakers at the super market they were 99 cents. I guess that Saran Wrap is worth a dollar!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That’s crazy we barely get eight bucks for 100 pound sack

[@robertreznik9330]

@@RockyMountainFarmer About 25 years ago my brother-in-law Dr Higgins worked for NAPI. We went to the loading dock. They were loading $2.50/100 beautiful bakers out of storage. The Mexican trucks had a driver and another riding shotgun paying in $100 dollar bills. We then went to a storage to see if it was empty. He ask me how many loads were lift. The small pile must have had over 3,000 bags left maybe 12 bobtail loads! The shed must have been 100 feet wide with the fans.

[@jeffreyloaf]

I wonder if you could get one or two of those big electro magnets that salvage yards use and mount them in front of the vine beater tractor; or after it. So you can get free metal out of the fields. LoL

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

The problem is the metal is not on top of the dirt. It’s under the dirt, so it gets dug up with the harvester.

[@capt.graybeard]

I'm really enjoying your channel quite a bit, and I was thinking of driving from Missouri to Idaho just to see if I could get a 5 lb bag of fresh potatoes. Do you think that would be possible? I mean I got no other reason to go out there so I drive out there get a bag of potatoes and come home. Sounds like a good time to me!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos. That seems like a pretty long drive to get a sack of potatoes. If you drove clear out here, we could probably make that happen.

[@capt.graybeard]

Let me see if I can do it next month... I'll let you know. Thx!

[@toddatglencovewoodworks]

At 0:42 you state that you cut off a brace because of the vines. Did you provide any feedback to Spudnik? Maybe they’ll give you some feedback too. Nice video!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah they know about it I’m not sure what they will do about it. Glad you enjoyed it

[@essexfarmer9610]

Sorry you had 2 metal bars stops there. When we still used to grow potatoes here just north of London UK, we once had a WW2 German incendiary bomb go up the harvester, into the 14 tonne trailer, all the way back to the intake store, where it arrived on the grader sorting table to be picked off by hand! Luckily we have an army bomb disposal unit based about 20 miles away who came and defused it. Old timers used to say that sometimes if the airfield anti aircraft flak was too hot for the Germans they used to jettison their load over farmland before heading home. Thanks Hitler!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Oh my gosh that is crazy. I definitely wouldn’t want to be digging that up.

[@OhRonaldo]

Hi Tehren! So this year youre expecting lower yield of (hopefully) 450 sacks per acre, I was wondering what was the bumper crop yield last year? Thanks!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

This year we will be lucky if we average 400 sacks last year our average was 550 sacks, which is not normal last year was just an excellent growing year. We normally try to hit 450 sacks but everybody’s yield are down this year because growing conditions were not as good. There was a lot of smoke in the air, most of the summer.

[@lindanelson8400]

I'm curious. You mentioned the yield per field of potatoes as say 400 bags. Is there a standard weight per bag, or is it a certain number of potatoes per bag? Thanks for another great video!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you’re enjoying the videos. One sack of potatoes is 100 pounds.

[@lindanelson8400]

@@RockyMountainFarmer That's simple enough. Thanks!

[@alfredmcintosh16]

When you say sacks what does that mean and how many pounds in a sack?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So a sack is 100 pounds of potatoes going off of the old potato sacks they used to haul potatoes into the processor with.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

How late do you usually run during harvest?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We harvest from 8 AM to 10 PM

[@garydietz8807]

What is made from your potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These will all be made in two potato flakes that then get turned into Pringles and things like instant mashed potatoes

[@angus4202]

have you ever had a year where you had significantly more potatoes than cellar what do you do when you run out of storage

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

That’s what happened last year and we were scrounging around looking for some cellars that weren’t being used and luckily found these two and decided we should rent them this year too. Next year we will be building a new cellar. I’m not sure what we would do if we had nowhere to put them we would probably just leave them in the ground and disk them up.

[@angus4202]

@@RockyMountainFarmer man id let the town come dig as many potatoes as they can carry before i just disk em under i hate letting them go to waste i had that happen last year i planted an 1/8th acre of potatoes for a garden and ended up with over 10 pickup truck loads

[@dog_house875]

​@angus4202 and than you sell half of what you would have lol

[@LeoKrijgsman]

@@RockyMountainFarmer In the Netherland you have big buildings they are for storing patatoos in boxes and they can 10 boxes high, they store`s for farmers they have no room enof. Have you seen the video`s on youtube?

[@rogerembry4777]

What does the cross over do

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It digs up six rows and puts it in between two rows that I then dig up with the harvester go check out our first video a few videos back where I explain what everything does

[@jimyeske8498]

Hi, I hope this isn’t a dumb question… but if you bruise a potato, it will rot, as will any potato adjacent to it?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Not necessarily we have been doing it like this for years and have not had very much rot aside from one cellar this year that went rotten, but that wasn’t because of potatoes, it was because of bad circulation

[@carlfalt174]

French fries aplenty

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They do make amazing french fries

[@sgtmark8844]

Being a city slicker and the bags I get are 5 or 10 lbs. when you say 450 sacks per acre what is the weight of the individual bag.

[@andrewdocrotten3485]

50lb sacks. BUT usually these commercial guys count in 100 weight. It could be either 22,500lb per acre or double that depending how they count

[@OhRonaldo]

In the video I think he said: "35 or 40,000 sacks so about 4 million pounds. " That would be 100 pound sacks

[@Arham7cheema]

Can anybody tell what is the price of potatoes in your state

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So one sack is 100 pounds. I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos.

[@KarmaShaw-dc1hd]

Crossover was my favorite to do until you are had to repair the chains on yourself or the harvester

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, repairing chains by yourself is definitely not fun

[@jerryjohnson8268]

what do the bags weigh

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

One sack is 100 pounds

[@shatterline28]

Do you not suffer soft skins with harvesting green top?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Normally, if I’m far enough ahead with the vine chopper, the skins are just fine but these are not going to be fresh sold in store they’re gonna be made into potato flakes, so the skins are not as big a deal

[@kevinsutherland6966]

What type of potatoes do u grow

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These are all russet rangers

[@ryanszyminski5145]

Wow that’s a shit ton.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

And that’s only the first cellar that’s our smallest one.

[@terrafarms7370]

here is a question I've wanted to ask for a long time. Here in Australia, we say that we have stored so many tonnes of spuds. To my knowledge we havent used your system of so many sacks or pounds. I dont understand why you would want to express anything in a pound scale, instead of so tonnes. Can anyone try & explain this please

[@rweisele]

Here in the US, the potato industry started way back, all horse drawn equipment, and a lot of hand work, so the potatoes were sold in 100# burlap sacks, the pickers were paid by the sack of 100#, and so that was the basis of the measurements for the industry. It has just carried through over the years, and potatoes are still marketed in 100# sacks, but also are packaged in 5, 10, and 20# sacks for the supermarket trade. It is merely a carry over marketing method from the old days, and one that everyone here understands.

[@Arham7cheema]

What is the price of ten pounds of bag

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So all of our contracts are in sacks I’m guessing it was something that has just carried on from decades ago when you would bring in an actual sacks of potatoes, so they count sacks. A Sack is 100 pounds.

[@linebattie6005]

where are you in Idaho??

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We are in Shelley