Potato Harvest & Storage 2024

[@bradmoyer9737]

I have been eating potatoes for more than 70 years and never had a clue what a fragile, labor intensive crop they were, including all the specialized handling equipment, and storage requirements. They have to be one of the best values in a supermarket. Videography is not only first class but also has a highly educational component to it. Another great video from the A team of potato farmers 👍🏻

[@charlieslorenson1861]

Yes the Tubers are fragile when they come out of the ground

[@FarmForward-i5g]

The hard work that goes into harvesting and storing all those potatoes is impressive, can't wait to see them make their way to our tables!

[@ljohnson5978]

I loved the American Flag on your shirt! Molly!

[@pdoherty]

You're getting dam good at these videos Molly! Thanks for all your efforts producing them.

[@garydungan6851]

i agree. not the major production that some are, just good honest vid's. BTW, i love the music at the very beginning, I just think it's cool. i get to head bobbing when I hear it. Thanks

[@rvbjr]

I enjoy watching the drone shots, they put the scale of the operation in perspective.

[@1striperon]

I love how you explained things as you brought us along from ground prep to storage to bags. Potatoes are a beautiful crop and I always felt there was magic not seeing them until out of the ground. So versatile in preparation for the table, and relatively cheap. Thank you for sharing, thank you for gracing our tables with your magic.

[@MrJoey1003]

The drone shots wow! 😃

[@kenmartin9227]

Molly always looks like she is having Fun...and Getting It Done!!!

[@FarmGearInnovators]

Nothing beats the dedication and rhythm of the harvest! Watching those whites and yellows get stored so carefully is oddly satisfying! 🚜👏

[@4sl648]

Your focus and concentration in the cab of Pig Pen is obvious. There is a lot going on there to pace the harvester and keep the alignment. Great job gearjammer.

[@BellsFarming]

Hey thanks! Hahah

[@PTRMAN]

Wow. SO MANY POTATOES!! Excellent work on the drone shots and music in the back half of the video!

[@tedclement5320]

Fun hair in this one Molly 😊. Great content as always.

[@jamesmockler3787]

Absolutely amazing!!!

[@bobkopf227]

Hi Molly and Shane, I love the drone footage. With the leaves turning it shows just how beautiful everything is up your way. Thank you for sharing.

[@artymorrison7045]

Thank you Molly, Shane, and team! Loved the drone shots. Loved the colors of all the trees!!

[@arunwahale9973]

Shane is very hard working person and well experience in all farm activity.

[@user-TOOLMAN]

nice looking potatoes

[@mikemorgan4726]

You guys are always working so hard and never stopping ❤❤❤❤

[@Incaensio]

Those potatoes look fantastic!

[@josmith3565]

Molly, The Autumn ( Fall ) Queen. Xx 🇬🇧❤️

[@geofflasater7356]

Wow I did not know how much went into potatoes. You guys are the heart of America.

[@rickkoshak4919]

Great video Molly. You definitely take pride in your work on the farm and certainly with your videos. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@MrJoey1003]

As @pdoherty said. I was just commenting to say wow. The production quality just continues to improve and the content is so on point :) Loved seeing the harvester making 4 rows into one. First real good shot of the inner workings. Excellent video as always!

[@grantpowers]

Hi Molly,, thanks for this video , a lot more insight into the steps of harvest and storage,,, have a great day 👍😎

[@DominicChristadore]

You look so professional behind the wheel of that truck just love watching potato farming and I can see it in your eyes that you put it over 150% of your job. Husband is lucky having you as His right hand man

[@kennethwing854]

Equal PARTNER! Equal rights!

[@kennethwing854]

Not right-hand man - equal partner!

[@billnlori3149]

Such a cool process!! Thanks for doing what you guys do, keeping us all fed!!

[@tlafontaine]

Love all the machinery. Very interesting process. Thank you for posting!!

[@sidqcampbell6892]

good morning glad to see our Boogie Woogie farmer is back on video for us. make it a great week Molly.

[@sunline24]

Very nice drone footage this video.

[@gardnep]

Great vlog. We use ‘bean ladders’ to minimise cracking in bean crop similar to your strategy of reducing the height of falling product to minimise bruising (n spuds. Autumn colours creeping in. Thanks for the video.

[@davidwyman153]

Another Class A video Molly. I found the aerial video especially beautiful because it showed the foliage as the leaves are changing colors and form a great background showcasing the beauty of Maine in the fall. Does look a little tight and demanding to do storage in those bins. Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. Must be great to have all the extra free time 😁. Just wonder when you all get to just relax a bit.

[@donaldwallace9417]

Another awesome video with great content and your driving truck is pretty dang good 👍

[@tombauer4655]

love your Videos

[@rickwhitescarver8526]

Live the positive vibe and hard working attitude you have

[@chuckyc6912]

Great video. Lots of expense but very interesting Molly you are a very bubbly person. Stay safe and great harvest

[@retrodad6864]

Love this content. Potatoes from sowing to harvest to storage and bagging. Educational as well as enjoyable. Thanks for posting. 🇬🇧👍👍

[@andrevdijk8474]

Hello Molly Bells There are large farmlands that are harvesting potatoes, compared to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the potatoes are harvested directly from the land by car or truck, which is useful if you work in the company of everything, a handy woman, have a good weekend until the next vlog.🥔🚚🚜

[@stevecollins1196]

As always truly love seeing your videos much love and respect thanks for sharing ❤

[@davidgenthnerjr4995]

As a teenager I liked working the tater house and bin piling seed potatoes. Once I learned to drive Standard truck transmission I loved driving trucks even more. Never heard of Yellow potatoes in Maine. Worked for farmers that planted reds, round whites, and Caribou Russets.

[@patrickgroves4047]

Great video. Your a doll!

[@allenmitchum9356]

Everyday grind, you make it fun and interesting Molly!

[@AndreZA979]

Just love it when everything goes well.

[@stephenbolton5426]

Great video. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@_Merica_USA]

Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!

[@federalist46]

This video takes me back about 30 years in San Diego. There was always some sort of heavy construction going on with large loads of different materials on one of the major cross roads. At a stop light I stopped next a double dump rig and in the drivers seat was this very pretty young woman with a similar hair do to yours, she looked down at me looking up and smiled. Thanks for the memory.

[@jeffdickerson3]

Great video, some people just don't realize the amount of diversified equipment it takes for different types of crops, you have a great crew.

[@Yorkie285]

Go get um! you and team rock....

[@alexs3447]

Was just thinking to myself what is Molly up to with the potatoes and bam a video pops up .Thanks guys

[@Jim_at_WoodPrairie]

Thanks for showing the Ellis Table!

[@westwindcharters9146]

Thank you for sharing. Brings back good memories.

[@alanharney5278]

My ancestors were farmers in southern Illinois after the Civil War. Small farms, 100 acres or less. No machinery, just people and animals and basic equipment. I wonder what they would make of modern farming? All the powered equipment and technology, like video on the Spudnik to see into the load trucks. It would probably seem like magic to them. Thanks for the video, Molly.

[@danielhathaway6000]

The rigors of moving storages , The constant awareness of not running over the cord and pulling it out of the box . One time that happened to me . I instructed my helper to unplug the cord and move it to the next plug . Little did I know he would go plug it back in while I was stripping and making the new ends . Needless to say it was electrifying , I fired him on the spot . The rest of the crew was standing around wondering WTF is wrong with him , I looked like the cartoon character , Yosemite Sam ... Oh the stories I can tell ... Thanks M&S , always enjoy ....

[@shanebell9589]

Running over the cord…… if I had a dollar for everytime I did that, wouldn’t be potato harvest without repairing cords now would it hahaha. ( PS I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one whose done it )

[@ericroadking7564]

Nice work guys!! Very relaxing to watch your videos and very interesting process as well!!

[@mikeharris6308]

Great video . Keep it up we love it..

[@jamesharrell8580]

'Really expert driving, careful hauling those "taters", "great" maintenance on your truck. Seeing all that you do, makes me "love" potatoes ever-the-more. Thanks for another wonderful video, I "liked" this video too...

[@markkallstrom5672]

We grew fresh market potatoes for 7 years here in eastern Washington The first year we made a lot of money the last year we dug them into dump trucks and dumped them on a concrete slab and feed them to our milk cows . We had the very high & very low prices ! ! !

[@rsonweb2060]

Another well edited/produced video. I checked out the Rocky Mountain site. They just don't have a Molly. I'm waiting for your first million view video. It is getting close.

[@stucook8622]

Great video...thank you!🐾🥔

[@gordbaker896]

Now "That's a dipstick"! Isn't it more comfortable to tilt the Steering wheel down (lower). Just wondering.

[@gordbaker896]

If you hit the '4 way flasher' prior to checking tires you can also see if you Brake and Turn lights (same element) are working. Love your attitude.

[@BellsFarming]

I actually moved the steering wheel up so it was more like driving the pete. I like the older trucks better :)

[@johnapernorio8151]

Molly, you were right about Rocky Mountain and what an operation they have.

[@mst2112]

Hello Molly, Aunty Michelle and all the crew. Sadly I have put the bike in the hay barn for the winter😪. I had one long last ride up north to Parry Sound, Ontario for a “boys nite”. Foliage colours were spectacular and the weather was perfect. After seeing your drone footage and seeing the leaves, I must say, I was very temped to take a demo bike from my inventory, fake a cold and book it down there. If you recall my 3 husks of corn story, I was thinking of adding a Potatoes in the Saddlebag, (potato salad??) chapter. lol..Nothing to declare? ahahahahah Nope! Keep up the great videos. My visit was and still is one of the highlights of my vacation. Stay healthy and safe! Peace, Biker Mark.

[@paulym5814]

So Molly is out in the field all day and Shane is playing video games all day. 😂😂. Another great video. Beautiful taters. You have a great farm going. So much hard work. Very nice drone video too. Autumn in Maine. It doesn’t get any better.

[@mariosepvillanueva1221]

nice share

[@alk7142]

Nice job with the video.

[@donniethebeau-dr1qp]

I love the yellow potatoes they make good fried onions and potatoes😅

[@chrishann5714]

Hardest working KZbin channel!

[@patrickgroves4047]

Anytime I eat any potato product, I will be reminded that Bells Farm might have grown these.

[@Juzzy520]

Good work indeed! BUT!! I wonder how many potatoes are in you storage bins???😆💪🍺🍺🤘🤘

[@petertatham-cw2oq]

Morning Molly see you have the special boots with toe cap tyre pressures they are very common every driver as one boot weather it be left or right xx 😂😂😂😂

[@southcarolinagrizfan1594]

More Molly...today is a good day.

[@AL_K_]

You love jeans, I love jeans, we all love blue jeans!! ❤

[@user-TOOLMAN]

boy that's a rough job for Shane but he sure can spread those spuds

[@edwardmarino2776]

👋🏻😉 just stopping by to say hi!

[@mrarchitect52]

Do you ever look at those piles of potatoes and say "OMG now they all have to be bagged!"?

[@shanebell9589]

All the time!!

[@KenHackathorn-m2v]

Would be nice if we could get your potatoes here in New Albany Ms.

[@jongoodson5676]

Molly and Shane! Another great video! Molly you are making tremendous progress with driving the truck. You will be a pro in no time! Do you think you will get all the harvest before halloween? I heard an old tale that if a farmer didn’t get their harvest in by Halloween whatever was left on the fields belonged to the fairies! Will you be feeding the fairies? lol have a great day!

[@logpile1318]

I used to haul potatoes from the field to the storage wharehouse and help sort them on the conveyor and a few months later haul them to simplot in grand forks north dakota to made into McDonald's French fries and simplot hash browns

[@120Workshop-George56]

Thanks Molly, so cool. Where is the puppy?

[@robertdonaldson6584]

Hello from Brunswick, Maine, US. October 25, 2024.....

[@edwardbella3871]

Are the yellow potato usually purchased by the general public.

[@joshb6470]

1:18 if there was ever anyone that deserved to have a personal full service on site gas station it's you Molly

[@DreamFarmUS]

Very impressive potato harvester, how does the soil and rocks not get mixed into the potatoes?

[@bendugas8632]

Great video, have you done a video how the potato digger works the machine which loads the trucks, I'm understanding the digger digging the potatoes and dropping them between the rows. Thanks for sharing your video.

[@RoadTrekker866]

It amazes me how many drivers kick or strike the front steer tires just by looking at them You can tell if they were low. It’s the drive tires the Dooley’s that you need to check.

[@MySORRELL]

THANKS!

[@alkennedy1124]

Be careful,there is a National E. coli epidemic with fast food, and especially McDonald’s food it’s onions so far, crazy, I don’t eating fast food, but who’s to say it’s not in other foods, lol right, thanks BigAl California, yellow onions.

[@domingogalanramirez8416]

Eres multi uso y siempre sonriente, cuando me bas a regalar una gorra o € un abraso 😂😂❤❤

[@ryburnsjr]

The views 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

[@ellisyork1817]

How do potatoes go from regular size to those considered to be new potatoes (small).

[@terencegillespie6675]

When they run the Mrs Maine contest enter.

[@johnlease2369]

And the beat goes on,i mean tators.

[@asyed1995]

Hope Farming Gardening great.How many days off.Others hobbies .

[@JoseMartinsdasilva-z3r]

Bom Trabalho aí Musa poderosa muita. Sorte. Para voçes 🎉

[@doughaslehurst5108]

You should fuel up last thing at night, this pushes all the air out of the tank. The air can condense out at night causing water droplets to form.

[@patrickwhelan5703]

Hey there Molly & Shane, does the local Police or Trooper division have a DOT check on trucks? Did you ever get jammed up on spot checks? What is the rule for mud flaps all around the truck? Does the mud flap have to be a certain height from the ground?

[@shanebell9589]

We usually don’t get bothered much with the farm plates, but we have had a few DOT checks over the years

[@JTTTTx]

In Maine, the agriculture community will generally get a break from law enforcement.

[@denniswagner6753]

Looks like Shane is playing Nintendo.hard to tell on camera.how big is that k span building?

[@shanebell9589]

130’ long I believe, like 60’ wide I think

[@BentRosing]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😘👍👍👍

[@CD-lm5xq]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@MichaelHolloway]

So that's the 'long reach' potato conveyor setup; how many amps does that jabberwocky pull? ;)

[@shanebell9589]

Probably 60 ish

[@williambeeman4574]

Want to buy a Bells Farm Hat do you ever sell them?