What we found when checking potato cellars is not good! Time to gas!

[@TheRange7]

It's so cool to see your grandpa still checkin in on you younger guys. Interesting video guys, thanks

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it. He always likes to make sure everything is going, right

[@lindanelson8400]

God bless grandpa! Hope he's going to be around for a long time to come!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We all hope so

[@staceylaine2372]

Good luck with your harvest and keeping it safe for all of us. I hope your selling to U.S. I have to say in S.C I haven't seen such beautiful potatoes.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m not sure where these potatoes end up they all get processed into potato flakes that get made into Pringles and mashed potatoes

[@davidbeckwith7598]

I admire the farmers...Good luck guys..!

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed the video

[@johnberry1107]

I like potatoes! Thank you. Stay safe.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Me too! Thanks for watching

[@buddah5894]

Why not gas right away? Or mabye store at a cooler temp to prevent sprouting. We store seed at a cooler temps. Either way it's fun to see how different regions grow and store spuds. I dont get in the storing side of it but we keep spuds for eight months. And wet years dont help either.

[@idahofarmer]

We don’t want to spend the money to gas if they are going to be taken out fairly quick. It doesn’t hurt the potatoes to gas just the wallet. Some years they have taken all of our cellars out before Christmas. Not this year they are just getting started probably on Monday.

[@buddah5894]

@@idahofarmer I Understand. We grow some table stock and it has seemed slow. I mostly deal with seed and its all refrigerated at 38 degrees. Storage spuds is hard. Ive seen spuds melt because of lack of attention.

[@MrCrazycook8]

Why did the sea monster eat five ships that were carrying potatoes? No one can eat just one potato ship.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Ha ha ha ha that’s great

[@the_potato_grower9363]

Do you have good fry color at 45 degrees? We raise Burbank’s and caribous for McCain’s but usually we keep everything between 48-53 degrees

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Ours seem to be just fine these are all rangers. We used to sell them to lamb Weston and they liked them. Now they all get turned into potato flakes.

[@BRPFan]

Thanks for an interesting video. The Farmers around Southern Manitoba grow a lot of potatoes as well but a person don’t not get to see a full potato storage as we call then where you call them potato cellar. Funny how different parts of the world call the same thing different names ah?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. It is interesting what things are called elsewhere.

[@BRPFan]

@@RockyMountainFarmer For sure!

[@ileenmcminn2062]

Your grandpa goes up and down stair better than I do and I'm 19 years younger. Are you going to the ag expo in Pocatello? I try to make it, would love to run into you there.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I will be there. I’m not sure what day. Agri service is taking our new Fendt combine to show and we will have some banners on it.

[@ileenmcminn2062]

Cool! I will look for it. I think I will go Wednesday.@@RockyMountainFarmer

[@robertr3470]

So when they pickup X many "sacks" of potatoes is that a unit of measure, or do you actually have to bag them for shipment to the processor? Also, what is the normal percentage of spoilage in storage that is expected?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

So a sack is 100 pounds. And we usually have about 5 percent that spoils.

[@joelg8004]

Are the taters sorted before storing them or when you unload them? What do they mainly go towards making?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We pick as much of the dirt, rot, and vines as they go into the cellar so they are pretty clean. These will all go to frito lay.

[@845spuds]

What do you sproutnip with when sprouts this size are present?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

There is one called smart lock that takes the sprouts off

[@expolim9460]

What is type of potato in first silo By the way ı just discoverd your channel ı really love it (ı am small scale farmer and student )

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Welcome! All of our potatoes are russet rangers

[@GOAP68]

3:30 possible opportunity for a drone to inspect the top of the cellar?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, I do have a drone and I do intend on doing that, I just didn’t have it with me that day

[@briangardner9826]

In the 3rd cellar why was there a dip towards the back of the stack?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

It was how the piler piled it up I’m not sure why he did that

[@shanebell9589]

Out of curiosity, I know potatoes are essentially “ exempt “ from FSMA. And I believe you said most of your potatoes go to pringles? Do you guys maintain GAP certification or do they require higher? We sell table stock and our sweet corn goes to wal-mart, so we have to maintain Harmonized GAP plus.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yes, we maintain gap certification on all of our potatoes

[@shanebell9589]

That’s sweet, harmonized gap is a pain , paperwork alone is ridiculous

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah, it takes a lot of time to stay gap certified

[@jedadruled984]

Wow, your potatoes are big.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Yeah they are. That’s how we do it in Idaho

[@vfromid2186]

It's those 8 or 9 inches that amaze me. Worked for Clawson and I loved it.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We had some this year that were 14 inches

[@BRPFan]

@@RockyMountainFarmer WOW!

[@Ergzay]

Why was your humidifier in that cellar that had the sprouting set to manual instead of auto? That probably caused the water problem.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Because that system has some issues and it wouldn’t run on auto

[@janetdijksterhuis5224]

How many kpa on the fans?pil soul be level at top,prevent air escaping,

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

I’m not sure on that we just set the temp and humidity and it adjusts the fan speed to meet the needs

[@janetdijksterhuis5224]

Don t trust you comuterised fans

[@paulsanders1373]

What type of potatoes do you grow? Looks like some kind of russets?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

These are russet rangers.

[@normh9155]

Can’t believe you don’t check a potato storage for a month.

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We check it fairly regularly

[@Wscspecialtycontractors]

I used to walk the tunnel and top of the pile twice a week.

[@masonlo545]

Do you spray anything foliar for sprouts

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We sprout nip with gas

[@paulsanders1373]

Have you ever had to destroy a whole storage container full of potatoes?

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

We did have a contract in 2000 with a processor that didn’t want to pay for the potatoes so they rejected the contract and we had to dump and destroy our entire crop that year losing millions of dollars.

[@jasonclark3127]

Now you can make malt vodka

[@RockyMountainFarmer]

Haha I’d rather not