Brings back old times. Digging potatoes in July, open widow in the truck so I can hear the harvester, breathing dust all day long, fixing those stubborn potato harvester chains, and the engine heat coming into the truck, diesel fuel all over my shoes, and coming home unrecognizable that my mother wondered who I was. AND those were good times.

@layneheward5392

3 жыл бұрын

Well said. Great description of spud harvest. Stubborn harvesters 😁👍🏼

I remember back in the '70's helping my neighbor pick potatoes up in NW MN. Pickers have come a long ways since then. There were 3 people riding on the picker sorting out rocks and greens. Later there were a half dozen people sorting to throw out the rotten ones as the trucks were being loaded to sell. Don't miss those "good old days". I like the salt and vinegar chips too...and sour cream and onion...and cheddar...and BBQ....and plain...and so on and so on.

@scottvaudrin4057

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in NW MN and road a potato harvester. It was a 2 row lockwood

Love harvesting and growing potatoes!

The very very good versatile tractor my dream tractors

Great video Mike. I grew up in Eastern Washington in the heart of Potato country. If if you ever get out that way in August you should film some of those Lockwood 8 row self propelled harvesters.

Really it’s a great video mike. I custom harvest potatoes in Idaho and to see all the action in this video is really neat. These people are skilled at running the windrower and harvester. It shows by their turn around time. At the head lands. The disc and drill planting the next crop was a great addition. Keep up the good work. 😁😁

Thanks Mike you brought back a lot of memories !

Thanks Mike for another great educational footage of our great farmers and what they do

Nice video of a different kind of farming!

I HAVE TO SAY THAT WAS SOME GOOD VIDEO THANK YOU FOR SHARING 👍🇺🇸

I once worked on a potato farm here in the UK nearly 30 years ago so great to see Mike thumbs up and thank you for the video. :)

Cool to see potato harvest action👍😉

Great video Mike. love seeing the variety of crops you show. A bunch of good looking tractors here too.

Hey farmhand Mike. You should try to get out to Quincy Washington. 400-700 square miles of farm land in the upper basin. All kinds of Vegetables, Hay, Mint as well. From canals to Wells to dry land.

Couple of nice Mack trucks. I love those shots like at 6:30 where you stand your ground with the harvester and truck passing either side of you

Sweet R model!!! Thanks for the awesome videos Mike!!!

Nice train in the background!

Very enjoyable video --- only one hour from my house. Oh, Lay's regular or Lay's BBQ. Love your videos. Thank you.............

Need more potato harvest videos. Try some Idaho farms, they have some big spud operations there!

Great video i work in the potato fields in Bakersfield for 10 years.

Awesome video, grew up riding a 445 Hesston 2 row digger pulled by a 1026 hydro. Those were the days....double digit interest rates, long gas lines, extension agents telling us to get prepared for global cooling, busted fingers, Colorado potato Beatles & 8 tracks...

Very very nice my realy dream tractors

Very interesting vid!! Thanks Mike! AND, since I’m from PA-Any chip that’s UTZ, Smokin Sweet & Dill pickle are my favs(we have 3 bags in the pantry-my husband eats them with his lunch, but he prefers UTZ sour cream & onion)

@taco44051

2 жыл бұрын

Love anything UTZ!!

The color blue j mis that at the best tractors on earth

Very enjoyable Mike. I appreciate all farming. Especially ones that make potatoe chips. 👍👍 Two thumbs up.

Thank you👍👍

I've got an industrial/commercial spray bottle that I cut the tube short on so it'd fit a smaller narrower bottle and I mix up honey and _wet_ vermouth in distilled water and spray that on chips sometimes, give em a couple minutes in the oven in the copper french fry basket afterwards. Only works on plain chips.

Great.

Great Video!

When the grew them around Robinson il, our retailer one of their branches and a buddy worked down there, got to them them guys digging them, they were some of the best taters we ever ate!! Nice and big the giy doing the digging said I can load your truck up full if you want we had to pass, was amazed how many was left guy dumped a few in a pile and said enjoy. Was a neat deal these were all hauled north or east cant recall that was in like 2000 area

great videos as always!

Wow, That is some good soil in that field. I do not think I saw one rock anywhere. Thanks Mike. I've now seen corn, beans, wheat, hay, carrots, grapes now potatoes being harvested oh yeah, and tomatoes too! I can say I've learned a lot about agriculture just from your videos. Thank You!

Nice to see the Potatoe harvest in other Countrys. In Germany if u see a Pulled Potatoe Harvester even there are also Company oder Family members taking Rocks, Dirt and rotten Potatoes of they try getting anything out befor the Potatoes leaving the Field most common Harvesters are Self Propelled and having a Capacity about one of thes Trucks to hold self in.

Great video Mike 😎

I am like the cookie monster when it comes to potato chips. I go nuts if peanut butter cookies are involved. Would really love to see farming video that involves making peanut butter cookies.

@farmhandmike

3 жыл бұрын

Okay I'll put that on the list.

Like series covering other crops besides corn, soybeans, and wheat.

Very nice

Before my time, this is what my moms side of the family did in western Oregon... Family was out of farming for 10 years before i was born so i never got to experience the fun.

Great vidio Make. Japan

From Henderson Kentucky just south of Vincennes. These potatoes possibly could be going to Grippos which is a local staple here in the Tri-State.

My 2 favorite chips are Barbecue and “douche chip” (salt/vinegar)👍🏼

My favourite potato crisp are beef and Canadian ham.

potatoes saved humanity

As always great video potatoes are grown on our farm we are just north of Carey ohio we have some muck ground usually they are stored in climate controlled barns and sold to the potato chip people throughout the year they keep till about mid May.

@farmhandmike

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eli, I know there used to be quite a few potato growers in Ohio when I was a kid but all those guys quite growing them years ago. I go through Carey quite often and don't think I've ever seen a potato field in that area.

@elihershberger3575

3 жыл бұрын

We are on the Seneca Wyandot county line just west of US 23 & sr 199 Marshall is the name they are the only one left . They didn't grow any this year they have had a big problem with the potato beetles they have become immune to pesticides allowed so they decided to try and control them by breaking their life cycle and use a different pesticide on a different crop. Plan is to plant again this spring . If they didn't already own the equipment they would quit and go to strictly alfalfa hay ......

Those are some good lookin' tractors......... what, NO POTATO CARTS....!?!? BTW...BBQ....

I am from that area originally. I did not realize they grew food crops like potatoes in the area, I know there are melon farms in that area.

Green dig chippers. Used to do this in my area and water would be dripping out of the bottoms of the trucks

So this is where the potatoes are coming from! I always thought they're growing in the supermarket... 😉 Thanks a lot for this great video! 😊👍🏻

Joe Veek!! Used to date Aunt Phyllis!

Watched them do this around Carberry Manitoba. Funny how the dates are pretty much the same!

They grow alot of potatoes and other veggies in central WI. In one area, all the "country farm" roads are wide & thick cement roads much like interstates. They do this because of the heavy potato & sugar beet trucks would tear up anything else.

Starting this spring i am going to start to make videos I was wondering if you had any advice for me and keep up the great work

they grow lots of potatoes where i live same kind of soil type, they use irrigation as well

Cheese & onion flavour for me.

Love your videos @Mike. Maybe a dumb question but why would you not just build an eight row harvester and eliminate the second machine?

Are they rotating the cultures here? I know that usually they do potatoes and wheat. I think you mentioned cover crop at the beginning, sudangrass. Will not be more beneficial to use something else? I see some corn in the background and something else that I can’t tell what it is.

@farmhandmike

3 жыл бұрын

The Sudan grass grow fast and get very tall. They will disk the tall Sudan grass down into the ground for organic matter.

@onionfriend9799

3 жыл бұрын

Also when they mow the Sudan grass and disk it in immediately behind the mower it releases chemical compounds into the soil that are toxic to nematodes which are serious pest in spuds. Tens of thousands of acres of sorghum sudan grown for bio-fumigation for potatoes here in Colorado

@ovidiuciuparu6421

3 жыл бұрын

@@onionfriend9799 great! I didn’t knew the entire porpoise of this grass. I think that is great if it can be used like this!

Being from SE Ohio, I’m partial to Conn’s chips

What is the profit potential of raising potatoes in that area compared to corn or soybeans? I saw lots of corn but did not notice any beans.

Plain with burnt onion sour cream dip, very good. Could they double wind row the potatos and increase harvest speed by 33 percent?

@layneheward5392

3 жыл бұрын

You can but you need a little different setup. Which means another tractor and windrower and a tractor set out really wide to straddle the 4 spud rows. Which is 144” wide. But it can be done. We do it in Idaho.

09:42 picturesque. Put that scene on canvas

Just one think the color blue

Conn's wavy

Do I really have to pick a favorite lol.

Salt and vinegar👍

I love you 🙂

How many acres of potatoes do they have each year? Love the 4020 still working yet!!

The big bar on the front of the John Deere is that his marker?

@farmhandmike

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

I have a John Deere 8870 on my farm it runs a Kuhn Krause domainter and wil rich field culvatior and j&m rolling harrow

Mike you know I love that drone footage, question what is the purpose of the marker arm on the front digger?

@Snowtruckdriver

3 жыл бұрын

It cuts the vine and makes a small imprression to put the potatoes in

@keithrobinson1331

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply guys I do appreciate what you, we do for farming any time I can learn more about other kinds of farming makes me feel more proud of all kinds of farming practices keep up the great work! 👍

I’m surprised they don’t run a rock picker through the windrow of rocks left behind, especially in potato ground.

Do they green dig all their acres or did they just start harvesting right around this video and haven’t killed the potatoes yet?

Any Idea what their yield was?

Those Versatiles are some weird looking tractors.

Are cover crops also cash crops? Or are they more geared toward composting, soil preservation & nutrients? I’ve been wondering that all harvest. What, for eg., cover crop would be planted over potatoes?

@chrissyfrancis8952

3 жыл бұрын

@MikeLess I got that they’re planting a grass.

@patrickc8190

2 жыл бұрын

protect the soil for the winter months and to help replenish the ground for next years crop or even perhaps harvest the sudan grass for cattle feed.

Manufactor Double LL. Double LL Stands for „Lots of Loosers“ 🤷🏻‍♂️ Just Kiddin, would love to have my own Farm...

How are the taters separated from the plants?

@layneheward5392

3 жыл бұрын

It’s the way they fall through the chains. The chains are different sizes. The dirt falls through the first and second set of chains and then the potatoes fall through the big set of chains which are called the Devine chain. Sometimes you have a shaker on the Devine chain the bounce the chain to help separate the spuds from the vine also.

Most farmers in idaho dig 16 rows at a time. Totally different potato I’m sure. Won’t sit in a cellar so I guess that explains why they are digging them while the vines are still green.

@ileenmcminn2062

3 жыл бұрын

In idaho we would call those "green digs " had to be processed within 48 hours. The vines have to be dead 2 weeks before the spuds can be placed in storage. Large producers are digging 16 rows at a time, and will be going to 20 rows soon. Look up Spudnik on KZread. Or spudnik equipment on the web.

@Greyhorse15

3 жыл бұрын

@@ileenmcminn2062 Yeah my dad and uncle use to farm potatoes a long long time ago. It’s pretty crazy how far technology has come.

@ileenmcminn2062

3 жыл бұрын

@@Greyhorse15 where at? I was in the Pocatello and Fort Hall area.

@Greyhorse15

3 жыл бұрын

@@ileenmcminn2062 Driggs

@Greyhorse15

3 жыл бұрын

@@ileenmcminn2062 Kinda miss farming. Guess excavation is close 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

How many acres can thy do per hour it looks like it is a slow going job.

Do you know the named variety of potatoes they're growing?

Me j look hier in Brussel belgium the bidirectional tractor of versatile in new holland color blue

Mike: would you be kind enough to give me the name of the Potato farm in this video? Many thanks

I actually know these farmers

Not a lot of potatoes for 8 rows, no ?

What the KZread channel name for the farm

My favorite chip is the one that doesn't make you fat.😳😳😳😳😳😞😞😞😞😞

Viek’s?

@PatsPurposefulPutzing

3 жыл бұрын

Vieck's

Desperdician demasiada papa, hay mucha que queda tirada en la tierra

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