Record Potato Harvest! Day 13

[@GoldenPotatoFarms]

It’s great to learn how to apply modern technology in agriculture!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@cmc7106]

Helping to keep Americans in potatoes!! It’s amazing the amount you harvest and put in storage!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It sure is

[@erictownsend4236]

I have to laugh when you say, I have to be careful going over this hill. We wouldn't even call that a knoll! Third gen. dairy farmer in NH. We had hills you could only traverse up and down the hill. One field we hayed, going up with a 100 hp IH 2 wheel drive pulling a baler and a kicker wagon, When we were baling uphill, we had to have people sit on the front of the hood, or else the front end would come up 2 to 3 feet! Stupid? Yes! This was? 40 years ago. Farming was tough, milk prices finally forced us out. Love watching your video's showing your land and equipment! I wish you all the best!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

The reason I needed to be careful was because when I go over a hill, the fine beater digs into the ground and throws a bunch of rocks in my windows so I have to make sure to lift it up not that it was a steep hill by any means. I’m glad you enjoyed the videos.

[@gregstone1306]

I wish the local market that i shop at had some of your potatoes for baking and my favorite, twice baked. Impressive products you have. Thanks for your videos.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@CampCook55]

Would be very interesting to see the operation of the processing plant where all of your spuds end up. Great video's , I have been around farming my entire life but never a spud operation, still learning at 70.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I asked and they won’t let me film that

[@ChristianKaasen]

@@RockyMountainFarmer Pity😕

[@CampCook55]

@@RockyMountainFarmer I can understand that. Between the Liability and the proprietary equipment just easier to say no. Thanks

[@thurilsaggittarius4646]

Your not the first to name a harvester Clifford. The Welkers called 1 of their combines Clifford when they got them a couple of years ago. I didn't know the reference, but since both Case and Spudnik are red, it wasn't hard to find where it's from. Good luck with rest of harvest and greetings from Belgium, where most fields are smaller than your yard.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

[@kentgill2669]

That is some of the biggest potatoes I have ever seen . Love your channel

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you like them!

[@Patrickreillyjames]

It's good to see you have a bumper crop off potatoes. I hope you get a good price for all the hard work you had with the potatoes this year. Good luck, and God bless you and your family from across the pond in England

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it it is a pretty good crop

[@jimpolk]

I'm gonna have to buy a can of Pringles just cause they come from your farm. Congratulations! 216 acres. Wow. Such a fascinating process. Well done.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Awesome! Thank you! There’s a decent chance that they are our potatoes

[@colthofer3752]

you know you have name the crossover bud the spud nice big potatoes

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@AdamsAdams-fc1ld]

I grew up in a small farm town in Michigan and only seen corn, beans, wheat and hay, this potato farming is awesome.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@tuberNunya]

Love to hear just how big the harvest is this year. I have not missed a day of harvest!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Awesome

[@jdallenone1715]

I remember heading out with my grandfather when I was a kid to glean potatoes 50+ years ago along the snake river. The harvesters left a whole more potatoes back then.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We still leave some but not as many.

[@joelhenderson5404]

Wow what a record!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Right

[@madhungarian3024]

Hmm, maybe a low-light camera of some sort so that you can keep the lights off? But i'm not sure how well that'd work either through the dust.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, that might work

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Wow, that's a impressive 216 loads day. I just can't wrap my arms around that ..... congrats.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@peteacher52]

1,000,000lbs = just over 446 tons imperial. During my NZ boyhood in the 50s, a sack of potatoes was 50lbs (2240 lbs = 1 ton). Tighter weave sacks of the same size were used for sugar and flour. We have long since gone metric, the metric ton (tonne) of 1000kg is 2205lbs. These figures help make sense to oldsters like me. That's a LOT of spuds!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Cool thanks for that. 1 sack is 100 pounds

[@peteacher52]

@@RockyMountainFarmer Yes! The full-sized sack was 1cwt (hundredweight, 112lbs, say 50kg) and used primarily for coal deliveries or animal feed to farmers. The men handling these on a regular basis had gorilla-like strength but their backs exacted a toll in the end. The sack mentioned above was really a half sack but more in keeping with a family's needs as well as the greengrocer's and dad's strength.

[@ronaldpiper4812]

I have drove simi and picked up shelley,I'd. And picked them up in Chicago. I am sure place packed in #5 or #10. In local brand. Cool seeing. The flakes are good. All patatoe. Enjoyed my few trips

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Awesome

[@paulhammond7489]

Congrats on a record day :) Request: After the harvest is done and dusted, can you possibly do a field report on the airless tires you put on one of the risers. They've been on for a while now and it would be nice to see how the ruts are and how the tires are wearing compared with the standard tires... TIA :)

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks. We actually did a little update here is the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpa4ioOPZ72YiJYsi=_guMifCCy1BIjgY0 It will be interesting to see how they work next year in potatoes

[@dnawormcastings]

That’s some big sized potatoes great harvest 🇦🇺

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@Skunky281]

Another amazing video!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@devanwinterton19]

The crossover should be named Odie, like the dog from Garfield. Clifford and Odie sounds pretty good.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I like that

[@AdamsAdams-fc1ld]

Starkey and Hutch the red with white match their car.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nice

[@jerryjohnson8268]

your chopper is like corn stalk chopper where i was raised in south dakota

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Probably similar

[@bdrakephotography]

That’s awesome!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@richardraymond5535]

Never seen so many potatoes.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have lots of

[@clutchitup8565]

I love conveyor belts

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

They make life easier

[@BoCorbit]

Wow, what an operation! Got a question, when you was in the last field, what is all the lights going on and off in the distance?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Those are windmills

[@tonyajohnson6065]

I think you should name the crossover, Emily Elizabeth. Then you would have Clifford and Emily 😊. Love your content but I especially enjoy the drone footage!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelhollmann8353]

Do you guys have any traditions for the last day of harvest? In our region some farmers put a bottle of booze or something like that in the last row and the if everything goes well the crew will find it on the sorter table 🍻.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We don’t but we always do a pizza party after harvest is over

[@joseastete7151]

Congratulations, very good potato harvest, what do you do with so many potatoes, do you have just one buyer or different one.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have just one and they make potato flake out of it

[@jasonclark3127]

Garfield for the crossover or Odie. For the vine shredder call it Taz for Tazmainian devil from bugs bunny

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nice

[@jamesducey2685]

Go spud people!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks

[@angus4202]

if you guys had an 8 row crossover and that new spudnik sp harveser you guys could probably do 400 if you also had an airsep instead of a sorter table i think thats gonna be youre next bottleneck is sorting

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Actually, the the air separators that go at the cellar can only run about half as much capacity as we put across our one sorter table and that’s the big ones so that would actually slow us down, but we could definitely add a second crossover. We actually had plans to demo a Lockwood air separator this week but when they were about to bring it out, we asked him what the capacity was and it was half of what we were doing.

[@angus4202]

@@RockyMountainFarmer wow guess theres always the second table and bin option

[@ronaldpiper4812]

Growing a lot of what us here in illinois, we just wish we could have a few plants of 3, maybe a hundred I don't know.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Good luck

[@jholliday212]

As uninteresting as it probably is 😅.. I'm curious to see what the air tunnel looks like, as well as the view from the top of the stairs on the far end, looking back over a full cellar... Have you considered selling bundles of the extra large potatoes, direct to consumer via shipping? As obnoxious as it'd be, that size of potatoe isn't usually available at a supermarket, if ever. Knowing my own proclivity for baked potatoes, I imagine there's others like me who'd also be interested..

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, keep watching. I did a whole video on a cellar tour that will be coming out soon. We did think about boxing up some but never got around to it.

[@angus4202]

when you're in that cellar the subwoofer on my pc rumbles from the potatofall

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Crazy

[@Sentymentkok]

How come they dont go bad ? Do you control humidity somehow? :D

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes we do and the temperature

[@davidchrisman855]

So you are good with people grabbing those potatoes from the fields after you harvest them?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yup

[@sallad19]

Shout out to Reeds Dairy! Best chocolate milk in Idaho!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Dang right

[@ballardgriswold7994]

any newer like 8rs or anything coming to the farm? I reccomend you try a lease trade deal. Trade 2 older ones and then get 2 new ones on a lease. We do that with our fendts. We run 13 fendts and did that after our first 5 years with them and got newer ones

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We have thought about that

[@ballardgriswold7994]

@@RockyMountainFarmer it’s been working really well for us. Because we have enough fendts so they can do the jobs they are best at and enough Deeres so they can also

[@phillipburns8818]

Do you sign contract before harvest..or After taters are in storage

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We signed before planting

[@ManMountainMetals]

What do you do with the pivot to keep it from sinking? Ruts look kinda deep 😳 I don't think I have seen that around here

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Sometimes they do get stuck. We just have to dig them out

[@1981FlyingV]

So do you grow other varieties besides Rangers?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nope

[@Ed_in_Md]

What’s inside the building that looks like it may have canvas walls? It’s white with a window or two.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

There are 6 people picking dirt and rocks

[@urnomatch4me96]

Or you could have named The Crossover and Harvester Tom and Jerry since the ones always chasing the other

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Haha true

[@Chad-i2q]

Have you got more potatoes that 12 million pounds?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, this is just one potato cellar

[@JohnSmith-vo9zc]

The crossover could also be called "doubledoor"............

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Nice

[@Sillyturner]

Do you ever run out of cellar capacity and if so how do you store the balance?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We haven’t yet but we would just have to let them freeze in the field

[@terencegillespie6675]

Boy! What a wad to unload on the marketplace. And Macdonalds can’t sell fries since their price went sky high according to yesterday’s news. Where do you sell it all. Boy I’d love to have a few of those whoppin big taters at home here.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

All of these will be made into potato flakes, and then made into Pringles

[@KnightlyTruth]

Whoever makes fries for McDonalds sounded the alarm on decreasing demand, which is sad hopefully it doesn’t affect you.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We don’t grow for them. These will make Pringles

[@larryaswdder2bvvae3taylorc60]

there is a plant here on pei that is called agra west they turn number 2 potatoes into flakes and they supply kfc. i was told that they r from idaho do u know anything about that

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I don’t know. We sell ours to a local plant

[@ileenmcminn2062]

So for comparison what was a great day last year? Was this Friday?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Last year we were lucky if we had 100 loads per day and I think this was Saturday

[@ileenmcminn2062]

Do Reeds dairy add potato flour to their milk? I knew they did to their ice cream.

[@rodchandlerii6922]

How many acres do you guys Farm

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

3000

[@tuberNunya]

1200

[@rodchandlerii6922]

@@tuberNunya wasn't asking you

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

1300 potatoes 1600 wheat and the rest is hay

[@MarvinDavis-tf3eu]

Where is cliffer

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Put away

[@rolandcanuel5331]

Trying find out how many brothers and sisters you have couldn't find a picture of your family mom and dad kids

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I have 2 brothers and a sister

[@DougFritzler-z5h]

You weigh each trucks

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Just a few

[@kenactofkindness4017]