Can we wash the rot off of our potatoes?
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In this urgent episode, we face a critical challenge: our potato cellar is rotting, and we must act fast to save our crop. Join us as we rush to set up a wash station to clean the rot off our potatoes and prepare them for processing. Our goal is to ensure they meet the necessary standards and avoid rejection.
Here's what you'll see:
- The urgent situation in our potato cellar and the extent of the rot.
- Quick assembly of a makeshift wash station to clean the potatoes.
- Techniques for effectively removing rot and preparing potatoes for processing.
- The final push to get our potatoes to the processor in time.
Will our efforts pay off, or will our potatoes face rejection again? Watch as we work against the clock to salvage our harvest and learn valuable tips for dealing with similar emergencies.
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Once potatoes start to break down and the good ones get in contact with the fluid from the rotten ones,the good ones rot fast.
Yeah, it spreads quickly once you get some rot
Sounds just like democrats
Hi from AUS. here. Man, I'm so sorry this happened to you. Well like I said to you last time, don't feel bad as this too happened to us on our last year of harvest. Unfortunately, you will need to increase the water flow as much as possible & also try not to recyle all the water as the plant complained until we used only fresh water as the smell will still be on the spuds. I wish you all the best thru this difficult time. Keep up the great work, as you will prevale.
Well thanks for watching. We’re doing our best. I hope you have a good harvest this year.
You guys are blessed with army of dedicated help! So sorry to hear of the large loss of potatoes , next year!
Yeah, we have been pretty blessed to find good dedicated help. Hopefully we don’t have too much loss and next year should be a better story. Thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Another ex UK potato grower here. I know that smell, won't ever forget it. We had stores occasionally start to self unload by a steady flow under the door. How ever do you manage to keep so calm ?
Yeah, when we first started taking the potatoes out, they weren’t too bad but now there is water running out of the cellar, so I understand that. I stay calm because I have faith that things will work out as long as we work hard to do what we can. You pray is if everything depends on God and you work as this everything depends on you. Usually works out pretty good.
I enjoy watching your videos because I learn something new each time. It is amazing how you and your crew just keep on keeping on when faced with such adversity. Sorry to see such waste because the processors didn’t do their job. I can only imagine how infuriating it is to deal with this.
I’m glad you like watching the videos. All we can do is keep on keeping on
I'm happy that you were able to salvage some spuds. Be safe and God bless
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Nice to see that you could save the harvest!!
Absolutely! Thanks for watching
Ex UK potato grower here: That wash plant is certainly getting you out of a hole but it does seem to be doing a lot of damage. Is it possible to see how it occurs and maybe put some rubber belting there or something? It also seems strange that the spray line over the first conveyor is in the centre. Ours always had 3 short rows across the belt which did a better job of even water application. Not the job you were expecting in hay time! Anyway, good luck and I hope the plant keeps taking them!
So far we have cleaned out over half of the cellar and they have taken them. There’s one really bad rotten spot they won’t take it’s about 10,000 sacks but we have hauled in almost 40,000 sacks if the potatoes get a little bit damaged right now, it doesn’t matter because as soon as they get to the plant, they’re gonna be crushed and made into flakes.
I'm an old Army guy, in Australia. After catching up a bit, I now have an entertaining channel for spuds (and other crops) as well as my two corn farmers and a hog farmer. Who'd o' thought?
Thanks a bunch.
Stu
Glad your here thanks for watching
Keep up this awesome content. This cool to see.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. Make sure to share it with your friends.
been wearing arm sleeves for years and never heard of farmers defense before. i just ordered some thanks
Awesome I hope you like them. I’ve been using them for a few weeks and they’re pretty awesome.
I’ve used farmer defense sleeves for a year now. They are great for working in the garden and going out for walks. I like their hats too to protect my neck and face.
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Every day can be a school day and we learn something new. That machine was really cool, once you got the feeds and speeds sorted out :)
Yeah, it runs pretty smooth when you get it figured out
Great spud rescue, you fields look great.
Yes, thank you.
Your title brought back memories. My dad use to grow potatoes and use the allis chalmers C with potato digger and the rest of us would pick a role and start putting potatoes in a bucket. The smell of a rotten potato is pretty foul lol. We would throw them at a person working another role lol. Good times.
Sounds like good times
Very informative video! It's fascinating to learn whether we can wash the rot off our potatoes. Thank you for sharing!
I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.
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Yes the arm band are wonderful we used a head band that was very nice in the heat when i worked for a tree company .
Yeah, the sleeves work really great
That’s really impressive!
It is pretty awesome how it works
If even 10% of the rot gets through the "cleaner" it's still 10%. End use of the potatoes is the open question: dried flakes for instant mashed potatoes? Potatoe flour? Mac Donalds fries? Store brand potato chips? Name brand potato chips? I use to work for a major brewer: 1 month after starting I stopped drinking beer. Even the 6 cases a month they gave us. Fed that to my pigs. Haven't had a beer in over 30 years...
So after we wash them, they go to the plant and they get washed a few more times and then they get made into potato flakes. They clean them really well before making the product.
Very interesting! Learned something new for sure.
@@RockyMountainFarmer thanks
Well, I’m glad you learn something. Thanks for watching.
They are going to pull put that 10% dude
It looks like a rock tumbler for a gold wash plant. Might want to find or get a bigger one that sprays more water and a bigger rotating drum to keep up and do a better job. This one seems to be missing several especially when you sped it up. Might even find one without the water tubs below the tumbler to where the rot falls on the ground and can be taken away with a skid steer bucket...idk just some ideas. Might be able to get one custom made without the water tubs below the tumbler.
Hopefully, we never have to use it again
Great video. That’s messed up.. they leave the potatoes in the cellar to long then they don’t want to pay you . That’s crazy . But it’s really cool how you come up with the fix . 👍👍👍👍
Oh, I’m glad you enjoyed it. We were able to salvage the majority of the potatoes.
I know it's an extra step, more labor, equipment and water but glad salvaged the majority.
Yeah we are glad as well. I think we’ll only lose 10,000 of 70,000 sacks.
That's a interesting wash plant. Of its getting 85-90% of the rot off I'd say it's well worth the time an effort on the potatoes
Yeah, it’s doing a great job
Man the struggles that all farmers go through
I feel like not a whole lot has gone right this year
That's gonna be one well watered spot down below. 😂😂😂
Yes, probably too much. I know some of the grain is already starting to die.
It needs a more of a faned high pressure across the total width of the up take feed conveyor before it gets into the drum ,,that would be even a better prewash
Yeah, we were thinking the same thing. The nozzles need to be more offset but there’s not much we can do about it it’s not ours.
If you do buy the washer, make sure there is a gold nugget trap on the prewash! LOL! Real nice way to save the crop.
Right literally looks like we’re gold mining
@@RockyMountainFarmer Yukon Gold Potatoes LOL!
Nice equipment I am watching this machine first amazing machine I like it what should you will do of washed potatoes
The wash potatoes are being taken to the plant to be processed
You know the old saying, "One bad tater can ruin the whole peck".
Exactly and it did
Can't you make Vodka from potatoes?
A grower here in NC does , has a distiller that buys the culls.
I know you can I just don’t know of anywhere around here who does
From rotten stinky potatoes
No not a head band ir was a neck wrap , cannot remember what it was called or who made it but it was nice .
Yeah, that would be nice
Do you guys use portable refrigeration units that go under the door?
We have a portable refrigeration unit that goes through a hole in the wall but that’s only on one cellar
I'm in Cali., and I'm sick and tired of cutting open my vegetables and finding rot! I have been buying frozen as much as possible. 😢😢😢😢😢
Yeah, it’s always a bummer when you cut something open and find out it’s rotten. I had a watermelon explode as soon as I tried to cut into it once.
On an slightly related topic. Isn't washed potatoes fetching a higher price than unwashed? What if you would wash all potatoes as standard? Or maybe not feasible?
Because of how we usually haul them in, it doesn’t make it more valuable. It would actually cost us more to constantly be washing them, and it would also take longer.
Thats alot of bucket loads. Looks like its working well though.
Yeah, it is working really great. I’m glad we were able to find one locally to use because there are not many around.
The one thing I noticed about that new chopper blower shoot it seems to narrow at the base of the shoot and it also seems to small for that chopper or your knives may need to be adjusted or dull that is the only time I have ever seen the chopper shoots would plug like that
Yeah, I’m not sure who designed it, but it doesn’t seem to be quite right
Did you guys get your new combine yet?
Not yet but I think in a couple weeks
It’s like a Gold mine Trammel to Wash off the Gold!
Yeah, it’s pretty much the same thing
The trammel works well .
Yeah, it does a pretty good job
Sorry the spuds are rotting in the bin
Yeah, this is the first time we’ve ever had a cellar this bad.
That’s pretty lame that they won’t pay for the potatoes that they contracted for and never took
I agree
Who screwed up in the cooler it probably wasn’t the plant that contracted for good spuds
You wouldn't see me eating them
Nope but they get cleaned up real nice before they get made into anything
You would never know you were eating them for what they go to be made in too. Potato flakes are a filler for a lot of food products.
Right there’s even a place here locally that puts it in milk to thicken it up
I know you said that the potatoes were not being taken out of storage fast enough but I still don’t understand why this happened. Why were the potatoes not being removed.
Because last year, there were so many really little potatoes that the fresh sheds did not want, the processors have been flooded with these tiny little potatoes that are basically free so they have been wanting to run on those free potatoes instead of the ones they’ve contracted now they don’t have those free potatoes but the contracted potatoes are starting to go bad
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If only that were an option around here, there’s no infrastructure for that
it would probably be way easier to buy the potato washer than to try and clean the potato washer
Yeah, we would like to buy it but I don’t know if they’re willing to sell it
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What do they use sprouted potatoes for?
They will break the sprouts off and use it for potato flakes
So is anything being done to prevent "cellar rot" from happening in the future?
I mean we did everything we could, we could get more refrigeration, but that’s about it
@@RockyMountainFarmer Potato cellars used to be covered in earth.
Yeah, we have a couple that used to be now they are just insulated and they usually keep pretty well
Got to smell delicious.
I wish
Interesting
Glad you think so
Why doesn't processor wash the potatoes?
They do wash the potatoes they also peel them and get them very clean but they don’t like having all of the rotten pieces and vines going through their plant.
You would you buy rotten potatoes by the pound, by volume, by the smell? The plant don’t want to wither
Does the potato washer recirculate the water?
It can but we just put fresh water through it so it doesn’t plug up.
Surprised that you don't have any potato starch processing plants there
As far as I know, I don’t know of any potato starch plants around
Thought the company was already contracted to take them and had stuff that blows the rot off before processing?
They can clean them pretty good, but they don’t like to get all the rot and vines in their plant
I can smell this have a plant near us that makes flakes for dog food and they use rotted spuds or bad spuds to make the stuff then its shipped out to the big animal food plants and made into pet food
That’s a good use for it. I know they’re making potato flakes but I’m not sure where it’s going to.
Pretty neat shit right there
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
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They had a cleaner like that a the flake plant where I worked must be a different company
Yeah, they have cleaners at the plant they just don’t like to run this rotten stuff through their plant
Looks kinda like a trommel from the tv show "Gold Rush."
That’s what we were thinking it looks like we’re mining for gold those sweet golden potatoes
that table that you are washing off all the time can you angle it to the side you are washing off and put a vibration system on it so the trash will walk itself off like they do in a gravel pit or a bean cleaning machine
Maybe but we hopefully never have to do this again
This washer needs some fine tuning to save clean water
Well, the freshwater is running into the field and will end up just soaking back into the aquifer so it’s fine
Do you have these problems every year?
This is the first time we’ve ever had this problem in 50 years
Just add mothballs to liquid on floor of storage bin to make “ ode to Kamala Harris “ perfume !
Oh dear
Time consuming for sure ,what else can one do to save a very large cellar worth many 10,000s ,the washer would be a nice unit to to have ready on hand in case of a emergency like this ..they do look very nice after they are washed and even at the plant there's much more processing to follow as well ,,your're all lucky I would say,as it's slow although it's much better that a total lost of 10,000s
Yeah, I’m glad we were able to salvage the majority of the potatoes. It would be about $1 million loss if we lost the whole cellar. I suppose we could take the really rotten ones out to a feedlot but what I’ve heard is all the feedlot are already full of rotten potatoes and can’t take anymore
@@RockyMountainFarmer ya seems like ever since covid,the bagged potato markets are going off real quick too, home shelf life of 2-3 weeks if your lucky , before one rots the rest, bought from at least 3 different supply chains and all had similar results, lots of hallowed spuds too with rot hallows , too wet during growing and harvest most likely ,or verity type , and heard of many farmers compost whole crops during covid ,because of lack of market , or plant capacity
The variety we grow doesn’t usually get hollow spots and they will keep for three or four months in your house under the right conditions cool, dry, dark place
@@RockyMountainFarmer ya i suspected the variety type might be the bigger issue, ,especially with the russet variety's i prefer buying ,glad you were able to salvage the crop
Sounds like more ventilation and refrigeration is required for potato bins otherwise Problems!!🇨🇦
Well, we have three cellars with refrigeration. Normally we don’t have to hold more than one or two into the summer.
how much gold do you get per ton of potato?
Haha not enough
Sounds like you need a lawyer, next year include a clause in the contract the potatoes have to be removed by a certain date or they will be sold to another buyer.
Well, the contract last year said they had to be out by August 15 but next year we moved it to June 15 so hopefully we don’t have this problem again
I thought you said in an earlier video that the potatoes for already contracted for so they are the responsibility of the process. Why are you eating the loss instead of the plant? Did I misunderstand?
Well, that’s what we thought but I guess in the contract there was something that they had in there so they were able to get out of it. That’s why we’re trying to save as many as we can.
Lo que estaban haciendo con esa maquina, de lavar la Papa, es similar a lo que se hace en un recibidor en las plantas empacadoras, ya que dure un tiempo en el recibidor después de que tuve un accidente y no podía hacer cosas pesadas, gracias a Dios no me corrieron y me pusieron en otro lugar que fue ahí en el recibidor, que por cierto si Dios quiere, en este mes cumplo 17 años de lo que me paso, Saludos y buen día.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. This is a similar machine to what they use at the plant to clean them but I know there’s does a better job.
What’s the name of the potato 🥔 that you grow?
We grow russet Rangers
What a mess , yikes.
Yeah, it’s pretty messy
Man thats going to take for ever to do and alot of water.
If you think this is a lot of water, you should look up how much cobalt mines use
@@RockyMountainFarmer will do 👍
Do you send the rotten potatoes to the pig or hog farm?? Learn something new everyday. Thanks 🙏
Well right now we’re focusing on cleaning what we can and sending it into the plant we will have about 10,000 sacks of rotten that we won’t be able to send in so I’m not sure what we’re gonna do with that there aren’t really any hog farms around. there are some feedlots, but I know there are mostly full already of rotten potatoes
The mfr probably makes it to where it uses the recycled water to comply with EPA regs. Conveniently, they also make a way for the farmer to bypass it because everybody knows......
Yeah, you’re probably right because recirculating the water plugged it in 10 minutes
WOW That is a BIG BIG MESS LOLOLOLOLOL
Yes, it is
Does the TFCC know about all this water usage?
Well, it’s the same water we’re watering our fields with so yeah
@@RockyMountainFarmer I understand. Just joking if you had checked with the nazi overlords.
Not really we ordered water for our fields so we’re just using that. at least it’s surface water not aquifer water, right
THEY are real Sturdy vegetables are they not.
Yeah, they’re pretty tough and these are all gonna be crushed anyway and made into flakes
Some of the comments are hilarious, just shows ho little some people know about food production 😂
Looks don’t matter if the stuff gets processed
You might want to think about something me insulation for those cellars or some refrigeration (guessing you guys are already thinking about it)
Yeah, we have some ideas for future years. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Can you feed the bad one's to hogs ?
We could, but there aren’t any hog farms around here
und habt ihr sie noch erfolgreich vermarkten können?
Yes we have
@@RockyMountainFarmer das ist tatsächlich erfreulich. habt ihr jedes jahr so ein problem mit den kartoffeln?
The smell must be horrendous
It’s pretty bad
I can not even imagine how bad that must smell, I get one rotten tater in my pantry, and it stinks for a day.
Oh, it’s pretty nasty. If you’re in the cellar for more than a few minutes, it starts to give you a headache.
@@RockyMountainFarmer does that mean it's producing some kind of gas? Scary stuff, y'all stay safe!!
Yeah, I creates a gas when it starts to break down
that looks like a lot of money n that potato barn dsappearing
Luckily we have been able to salvage most of them. It would’ve been about $1 million loss now we will only take a loss on about 10,000 sacks.
I must be very lucky. Never use sunscreen and hate long sleeve shirts. No skin cancer that I know of. As for potatoes I never understood why anyone would want to eat those things!
I love potatoes they are one of my favorite foods
@@RockyMountainFarmer WOW I used to hate potatoes so much that when mom served them I would throw them out the window for the ducks to eat! Do you steam, bake or fry yours?
All of the above I like them any way they are cooked
This guy always has rotten potatoes
Why would you not get paid due to their negligence ?
Yeah, he said it was our fault that the potatoes didn’t keep long enough
We’re the fans kept on properly? We’re you diligent enough
Who pays for all the potatoes u lose
We just have to take the loss nobody pays us for them
You got a mess
Yes we do
I wonder if the cows would eat that stuff y’all are washing off the screen? I know a hog would. You need to find a neighbor with hogs and give him some free food.
We will end up, just tilling it back into the ground and using it as fertilizer
I have no idea how they expected that wash system to work. Maybe with 50,000 gallons of water and a screening system bigger than itself.
Yeah, I’m not sure how it was supposed to work but it plugged really fast. It works great with the mainline water.
Love me some taters!
Me too
That is just nasty, need to wake up and sell before this happens. I cant believe you are washing off the rot and selling for the public to eat, isn't a good look for the industry.
It was sold before we harvested it. The processor just never took it out of the cellars.
He explained in a prior video this load of potatoes is already sold. The production plant never came and got them
Sounds
Like frito lay wants to skirt there contracts and always blames the farmer. Could be McDonalds to
It does seem like the Farmer always gets blamed for everything even though we get paid pennies on the dollar