Another 7 million pounds of potatoes! Potato harvest day 10

Welcome back to Day 10 of our potato harvest here at Rocky Mountain Farmer! We start the day off with a quick morning update from the potato cellar, making sure everything is in place and ready for another busy day. From there, we head out to the fields to run the vine chopper, clearing out the potato vines to make the harvest easier. It was a long but productive day, and I was lucky enough to capture some incredible sunset drone footage of the harvester and crossover in full swing-trust me, it’s worth seeing!
As the day came to a close, we tackled the big task of moving to a new potato cellar. We finished up by storing a whopping 7,000,000 pounds of potatoes in the new facility, marking another milestone for this year’s harvest. It’s always an exciting feeling seeing the cellar fill up after a long day in the field.
Make sure to watch until the end for the drone shots-there’s something about that sunset light on the equipment that really showcases the beauty of farming. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit that notification bell to stay updated with more from the farm!

[@adoptionsgreat]

Those conveyors of yours we bought this summer worked awesome for us sped up our unload time a lot! Thanks for upgrading your equipment so we could upgrade ours haha!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad it worked out for you. Our new stuff is working great as well.

[@JamesWest-iu4jx]

I just picked up a ten pound bag of potatoes at my small town grocery for 1.99 . There is some fairly large ones in the bag . ( not as some of your JUMBO'S ) but I was glad and think of you all when I pick um up. Thank you all for feeding us . I thought that was a really good price and assuming because cleaning out the last of last year and bring in the new years ? Move um or lose um ? But I do think of you all and I know you can't give them away and there's the balance to stay in business . So keep keepn' on and I'll get these ett up real quick and go back and get some more , even if the price is back up I know the work and the worry. By the way ,back in the 60's and 70's when me my mom and dad AND my 15 brothers and sisters were at home we brought two 50lb. bags every two weeks , and a 50lb. of carrots, a bushel basket of apples, bananas by the box , dozens and dozens of eggs, gallons and gallons of milk, bread by the.....

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I bet having 15 brothers and sisters you guys ate a lot of food. Thanks for supporting the potato industry and I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

[@tuberNunya]

Always nice when the manufacturer forgets what sprockets he used when he built the machine.

[@bette-annflood835]

Drone videos are amazing

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you like them!

[@robertpace9511]

When I was a kid in the '60s, spuds weren't harvested till after the first frost. No chemicals, no choppers, mostly harvested by hand in the freezing cold. Junior and senior high schools had a two week break beginning the Monday after first frost. Pay was fifty cents a sack. I could do about 20 sacks a day. The Hispanic farm workers could do twice that. That probably explains why I ended up in broadcasting. 😅

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well now, if we wait till after the first frost, we’ll have a hard time getting them out of the ground before the ground is frozen solid. But the old ways of harvesting were definitely a lot more manual labor. It cannot be done like that anymore. You would never get them harvested.back then a farmer might have 40 acres they need to harvest now we have 1300.

[@tuberNunya]

I recall harvesting spud in the 60's by hand too. The tractor could dig one or two rows, I don't remember and left the spuds on top. Big baskets we used. Boy have times changed huh? And the leftards said we could never feed more people and we would starve. Fooled the effers eh?

[@stuartatkins5425]

New to your channel. Have you explained how your potatoes are used? Do they go to supermarkets, or to potato chip factories, or to French fry plants, or what? And have you done a video of what goes on in the sorter? Really enjoy your channel.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So all of these potatoes will be made into potato flake that will then make instant mashed potatoes, and Pringles. The sorter table really only sorts, dirt and vines out of the potatoes. They do make sort tables that size the potatoes so you can get the smaller ones out but we keep all of them. I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel.

[@BruceBergman]

What variety are you growing? burbank Russets are French fries and potato chips, and large Baking potatoes. 12:14

[@ManMountainMetals]

And this is where the national potato chip stockpile is stored ladies and gentlemen. 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Well, kinda, these will be made into potato flakes, and then into various products

[@gregstone1306]

Can you get a build sheet from the manufacturer for your new equipment, to help with part numbers? Your new cellar equipment is great.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Each piece of equipment has a serial number and has a parts list tied to that serial number

[@fritzsue]

Just curious why are they stored for so long and not simply sold and bagged? I just can’t get over how many potatoes you folks are moving it amazing

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

All of our potatoes are sold to a processor so they store them until they need them for the product they are making and the reason why most fresh potatoes are stored is so that you can have a supply of potatoes in the stores year-round

[@ArthurFagan]

I was sure interested in who buys your potatoes You grow enough potatoes to feed America. 😂

[@ArthurFagan]

You guys sure make interesting videos. You should get an award.

[@rogerembry4777]

They don’t keep that long at my house lol 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, you really have to control the conditions that they’re stored in. Another factor for them not storing that long is most of the potatoes you buy at the grocery store have already been stored for 6 to 8 months.

[@ManMountainMetals]

The big ones are full of vodka 😂

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I know you can make that out of these. I don’t know who does though.

[@MrKylekja15k]

You cut that piece of twine out of vine chopper, worried it might have damaged bearing, then you threw the twin back on the ground???

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I threw it in the weeds next to the field

[@ellisdando1061]

Nice one , how many pounds are you expecting to harvest this season?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It’s probably somewhere around 60,000,000 pounds but we will see when harvest is over

[@ellisdando1061]

@@RockyMountainFarmer wow ,that a lot of fries 🍟 .Hi from Germany.

[@bigmackstruckstop9213]

Hey brotha,I gotta question,I bought a potato 🥔, and it had a rotten place and light pink place and just wondering about it, but I tossed it in the can, likewise I always enjoy your show 😊

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, I suppose some of them are rotten that get in there. They look OK on the outside but not on the inside it happens. Glad you’re enjoying the channel.

[@bigmackstruckstop9213]

@@RockyMountainFarmer yeah,thank you for your comment and I appreciate it,I'll catch ya on the next.

[@jasonclark3127]

How more cellers you have left to fill and I hope you fill them all up

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We are about to move to our final potato cellar, and we should be able to fill it all the way up

[@angus4202]

will the harvester dig without chopping vines if that vine beater were to be down

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It will, but we will lose more potatoes over the back

[@montepalmer713]

When you mention your cellers hold a certain number of bags, what size of bag are you referring to?

[@CameronChristensen-bv2tv]

100 pound bag or sack.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Each sack is 100 pounds

[@RonguyAg-j4v]

What do you do with the potatoes when you run out of cellars? Is there a spot market for potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

If we run out of potato cellars to store them and we can’t find another cellar, we just leave them in the ground and work them up there’s nowhere we can take them. But we’ve luckily never had that problem. We almost had that problem last year, but we found some potato cellars to rent.

[@angus4202]

how many fields you got left if you only got 3 big cellars left and youre filling them at this rate youre probbably gonna run out of room again

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

No, we have more than enough room. We might have lots of fields left, but they’re not very big.

[@engineerjeffery4582]

wheres is this location

[@annmurphy5507]

Potatoes are grown in eastern and southern Idaho. Many YT farmers & ranchers only list their state because they don’t want strangers coming onto their property invading their privacy.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

This is in eastern Idaho