Potato Farming in Ireland ** Documentary by Videos of Irish Farming Life

[@bwghall1]

spud picking in the 1940s. and diving between rows when a plane came over just in case it was the Germans. all the women shouting dive for cover, us kids loved it.

[@russellrlf]

I love these videos. It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for commenting!

[@jeksixten5751]

I have Incan descent this is Amazing to see how important potatoes to other countries...

[@peteacher52]

Helps to make sense of the relentless slog that was growing potatoes manually, fishing from currachs and maintaining a modicum of comfort that was life on the isolated Blasket Islands before 1920.

[@ЕкатеринаЗакора-с2т]

Lord God, please help not to take the land from ordinary farmers of Ireland, their children cry, they handed out a lot of food to charity, treating everyone, look at their dark faces from the sun and strained hands. Thank you very match.

[@patrickcodd7010]

As an Irish man living in Australia i find your videosios so very interesting. God bless your work and. God speed the plough.

[@Meanfidler]

Very good video, thank you.

[@paulbeech7276]

Love it...Picked spuds by hand in the early 80s November time....must of been 14.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Thanks Paul, Glad you enjoy it. We have a video specifically on gathering spuds coming up in a few weeks.

[@robertstewart3638]

Thanks that was very interesting to see how it’s changed from when I grew potatoes in the 70s

[@michaelgrogan]

Love it. Well done. From Kildare

[@SurprisedAlbatross-op4ik]

Very very good and interested in it all very good

[@maryamzakariya47]

It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland

[@parlainthtownie85]

This made me so hungry. I had potatoes for lunch and now after watching this I want potatoes again.

[@shinawillmn]

Very interesting and informative.

[@joseduarte176]

More videos, please! 🎥

[@stuartf2946]

I really enjoyed this video and continue to catch up with the rest. The farmers do work so hard, even with mechanisation it is still a very long day for them. I am an avid potato fan and thank the lovely Irish for producing such great quality potatoes.

[@blameusa7082]

i love these videos.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for commenting

[@eilissmith8591]

Great story, makes me want to pop up to the glens of Antrim, then over to the causeway coast.

[@gburahbondo2948]

I love Ireland

[@ChefEarthenware]

I enjoy these videos, thanks.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Cheers for dropping us a comment Chef

[@donalfinn4205]

Very interesting I must say. I love potatoes and it’s great to see these agricultural videos.👍☘️

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Cheers Donal

[@listairgin]

Great informative video, thank you. 👌

[@rebelcounty2078]

Great Videos. Very Interesting. 👍

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Thanks!

[@rebelcounty2078]

@@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Have you any sugar beet videos, that would be nice to see.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

@@rebelcounty2078 None on Sugar beet.. Do you farm it?

[@charlesyoungblood1402]

Outstanding Video and very educational .

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephenross1581]

Very informative and interesting video, thanks for posting, Stephen

[@duncanosborne4871]

My dad worked on a farm in the uk they grew peas and potatoes, i can remember seeing the crowds of women arriving in the mornings picked up by the farm in the land rovers too pick the peas or potatoes i have done that as well. Its ashame that nowadays the old ways have given way to mechanisation, as with so many people being made redundant due to the pandemic it would of given loads of work too locals

[@dougcarroll9623]

I remember picking spuds in quarter tonn boxes got 7 pound per box boy was that hard work I could only manage 2 in a 12 hour day

[@gregorymalchuk272]

What year was this? I want to run the inflation calculator on it.

[@dougcarroll9623]

@@gregorymalchuk272 1982

[@liveweathermike8714]

Very interesting video on Irish potato farming keep up great work with these informational films

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed

[@alanmitchell7322]

very interesting vidio

[@Daytona2]

Good to see, thank you.

[@Cypher791]

Chip Inspector... i was born for this job =D

[@arthura.applegatejr.7145]

I don’t understand why JD is the most prominent when James Oliver had a plow works 10 years before Deere‼️

[@debbiegamon1232]

Why is life changing so dramatically. In three years no potatoes grown here?

[@jasvindrasidhubrar3829]

Very very informative and intresting video! 🇮🇳

[@lenscap8925]

Was the prognostication of the end of potato growing in that area correct? If so, what is the crop now, or are there houses on the land?

[@thomasstrong6632]

The gobshite (farming expect) was as most experts tend to be, very wrong.

[@SqueakyWheelMakesNoise]

Interesting I subbed.

[@markward6076]

During the great potato 🥔 blite. Ireland grew more than one food crop that should have saved them from starvation.

[@patricksheridan7899]

They forgot to tell everyone that the crown took the rest of the food.

[@abeonthehill166]

But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe

[@diamantschwarzmet]

Interesting see the stones used as a drainage. In Germany they are carried away and not used for anything.

[@Improveng1]

Great video and great commentary. It's a big thumbs-up and a sub from me.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Much appreciated!

[@rudrakshpainuly1294]

Atleast Ireland still have their potatoes even after the worse potato famine cuz of the Brits.

[@redeye9140]

Good ole Irish potatoes, good for the body, good for the soul.

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

For sure! Thanks for commenting

[@bsanders7061]

Great video. Way too many ads.

[@tonymurray814]

I got premium on utube. No adds at all for $10 a month. Best money I ever spent!

[@MichaelTaylor-fk7mn]

Like it

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Thanks Michael

[@davidedwards3465]

Great voice, so clear .

[@swrtsolutionsinc.1092]

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[@jeksixten5751]

Same thaime"

[@joshjerrome8227]

Did the potatoes survive and were they kept farming in the north ?

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Hi Josh, Yeah we're still farming potatoes in the North.. Thanks for the comment

[@brucemiller8109]

This film must have been done in the 1990's because the cost of a JD or Ford 135 Horsepower Tractor is 145,00.00USD. Every thing keeps going up.

[@tdolan500]

From the plates on the vehicles its definitely after 2002. Maybe around 2004.

[@johnperry5102]

why did you have a fammin, didn't you grow other crops besides potatoes, didn't you have cattle, sheep, goats, chickens

[@patricksheridan7899]

The english crown took the rest of the food for themselves, history convienently left that out

[@geraldneary5758]

Thoes were stolen by the British solders and taken to England.

[@cs-rj8ru]

You're not gettin me chips!

[@greggroome2791]

🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏👌👌👍👍

[@MrjackieG]

I thought the potato famine was caused by the British army seizing the potatos and stealing them

[@geraldneary5758]

They stole other food, and 2 million died and 2 million flead the Country. The population went from 8 millions to 4 millions.

[@kirkbrandt8143]

an gorta mor sorois sorai de anam 🙏

[@ikyist]

Haha no way I'm from Ballymena

[@sddfksdfsjs]

The homie Lne

[@splishsplash9036]

tò many advert breaks to keep my interest on the film so switched off after 20 minutes

[@VideosofIrishFarmingLife]

Thanks

[@kipstrange1973]

Use Firefox with adblocker and you will be fine.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Stayed 5 minutes, left in the second advert break.

[@Daytona2]

No adverts anywhere with Adblock Plus :)

[@geraldneary1948]

Boring

[@amn2760]

POV: It's year 1845

[@christopherdavies752]

U make potatoe growers look bad

[@jimfix9846]

Tatos tatos growing tatos

[@glenvillesmall8684]

To many adds, greedy channel.

[@Aut0five]

its a pity that irish potatoes tasty so nasty. Must be the peat soil.

[@Timberdoodle197]

Your arse sir

[@geraldneary1948]

He's probably gay or something.

[@davidnyc487]

You obviously never had Irish potatoes, because they are the best.

[@vinnitca1990]

Хорошо что я увидел это видео ! это эще одна страна которую я не хотел бы посетить.

[@tonymurray814]

Why?