Planting Potatoes! 1200 acres in 7 days!
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Join us on the farm as we embark on the massive task of planting 1200 acres of potatoes using our trusty John Deere tractors and the cutting-edge Lockwood Airecup system. In this immersive vlog, you'll witness the intricate process of preparing the fields, loading the seed potatoes, and deploying the state-of-the-art Airecup technology for precise planting. We'll take you through the challenges and triumphs of modern agricultural practices as we work tirelessly to ensure a successful harvest. From dawn till dusk, our dedicated team maneuvers through the fields, optimizing every step for efficiency and quality. Whether it's adjusting planting depth or calibrating equipment settings, every decision is made with precision and expertise. You'll see firsthand the synergy between technology and tradition as we honor our farming heritage while embracing innovation. So, grab your virtual overalls and join us for an unforgettable journey into the heart of farming life. Subscribe now to stay tuned for more farming adventures and exclusive insights into our agricultural endeavors!
Well! I"be dammed if the last 3 minutes wasnt the most american-farming sight I ever saw! Great job my fellow potato farmer :))) Keep up the good work! We will meet at the next video. :)
Well I’m glad you enjoyed the video especially the drone footage. I never know if people end up watching it. I think it’s pretty cool. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Amazing video of an even more amazing farming operation. This video should be shown on CBS 60 minutes.
What variety of potatoes do you grow
@@glennkramer2922 that would be cool I’m glad you enjoyed it
@@George-rw8ej we grow russet rangers.
This is what should be shown in schools so people actually know how they eat and the time and money it takes to simply get a potato. Keep it up.
I’ve tried talking to the local schools to see if they would show any of it but so far no luck. thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
A trip thru this video would give kids a broader, and hopefully appreciative, perspective of their fries from McDonalds or Burger King etc. Great video, especially the GPS controls for uniform rows!!!
I was raised on an 80-acre Spud farm near Buhl Idaho. 1947 Hand-cut seed eye per piece. Farmall F-30 tractor. Hand-picked and hand-bucked. School closed for harvest. Pickers got a nickel per sack. Lots of work but it was a great way to grow up.
Very cool! The Shelley school district here still closes for harvest. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing your story.
❤Thank you for feeding my family!
No problem. Thanks for watching
Seeing a potato farm takes me back to my time as a 13 year old here in the UK potato picking. We would be picked up by the farm lorry at 5am, then work filling 1 tonne wooden crates with potatoes that you would pick by hand. As a 13 year old, I earned more than £100 a week (about $170 at the exchange rates of the time) doing that backbreaking work from 6am to 5pm for a few weeks every year.
That sounds like a lot of work. I’m glad we don’t do it that way anymore. It would be hard to find people to work that anymore. Glad you enjoyed the video.
I live in New Zealand and moved out of town to a two acre block surrounded by paddocks which have grown wheat, ryegrass and potatoes. It’s amazing how farming is done, the machinery and dedication of the farmers and contractors. I am always enthralled to see something new from season to season. They all deserve more credit because it’s a hard life and they battle the market and the weather. Thanks to all farmers for making our food.
Farming is definitely hard there have been a lot of farmers around us who have quit farming because they couldn’t make any money. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Yeah, as a fellow Kiwi, I'm amazed at the size of these American farms, I mean 1200 acres is almost 5km squared; that's insane!
That’s just our potatoes. We farm about 3000 acres in total.
I love the snow top mountains ! What a view for a farmer !
It really is! I always try to appreciate it.
Impressive demonstration of current technology for farming potatoes. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching
Its really nice to see how other Contries plant Potatoes and what kind of machines are used. We are already done with planting our 830 hectare (around 2000 acres). Greetings from Germany
Yeah, it is interesting how different the equipment is from place to place. Even around here there are many different types of planters and set ups that everybody uses
I remember planting potatoes with my grandfather. We would sty up the night before cutting the eyes off that we planted. Man miss those memories for sure. We would have a 1/2 acre of potatoes the rest all vegetation you could think of that would grow in the south Texas area. We planted 1 1/2 acre of groceries and dang those veggies was the better than what you buy in the stores now. Homegrown is the best without all them chemicals the government wants yall to put on them. Yeah while it took some to keep the bugs, insects,etc away but dang love me some homemade veggies. Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
That's what I remember as a young boy, helping my dad plant potatoes in Northeast Arkansas. We had what was called a middle buster and I would drive the A Farmall and dad would walk behind the tractor with his hands on the plow. I was 8 or 9 and the tractor was in first gear so he could keep up. Then we dropped the potatoes by hand then we would cover them by hand with a hand rake. It was hard work to plant a 1/2 of potatoes. By the way, this is my first time watching your videos, Doug.
Thanks for sharing your memory.
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I HAVE BEEN THERE! EACH POTATO FARM IS 5 MILES BY 10 MILES IN SIZE1 THESE FOLKS FEED AMERICA NO PROBLEM! GOD BLESS EM!
Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. There are some big potato farms out here that are bigger than us course the state just curtailed all the water which is going to put a lot of them out of business.
@@RockyMountainFarmer THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT PUT'S THEIR NOSES WHERE THEY DO NOT BELONG!!! WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FEEDING THE NATION AND PART OF THE WORLD I AM SURE! GOOD THING THAT I AND ALL FOLKS WHO WORK FOR A LIVING LIKE FARMERS KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR! CERTAINLY NOT THE MENACE TO SOCIETY! HAVE A GREAT DAY!
That last few minutes of the drone shots was awesome. Makes America 🇺🇸 proud what you do . Thank you for sharing a great video. 👍👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it. I always wondered if anybody would want to watch the drone footage. I’m glad people like it.
An awesome operation you have there. Last year my wife threw some old potatoes in the compost pile. A few weeks later we noticed the leaves so we took them out, planted them and later that season I dug up at least a dozen lol. So they’re not hard to grow.
They’re not hard to grow, but you have to keep a close eye on them because there’s a lot of diseases that can affect them. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
First time viewer. Great video. I loved it. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see your next video.
Awesome! Thank you! Glad your here
I grew up in Shelley, knew your family and good friends with the Dial and Cannon families. RIP Curt Dial.
Me and my brothers come and hunt pheasants in and around Shelley every year, harder to find em but still a good time. It was a great place to grow up in the 70’s and 80’s. Moving pipe, spud days and learning to drive everything imaginable starting around 7-8 years old. Thanks for sharing your operation.
Well, I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for the comment and sharing your story.
Thanks for the video, We are from Idaho Falls.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Amazing. Clearly technlogy (and smart farmers) are feeding us all! Thank you!!!
So nice of you. Thanks for watching
WOW!!! That is so cool! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it
It’s tater time! Now y’all need rain to help the pivots. I really enjoy all your videos last years harvest and your storage videos were awesome. That’s the most taters this old Georgia boy has ever seen. Thanks for sharing and see you next time.
Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. As far as watering the potatoes we will have summers where we get one rainstorm so we do not depend on the rain. We have to water them or they’ll die.
Showing how everything worked was brilliant. Great job. Subscribed!
Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
This was awesome to see! Loved the last three minutes of drone footage…totally inspiring!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting
Thanks Ted
Can you please tell me what drone is that? It looks amazing@@RockyMountainFarmer
Great video. I am a retired grain and livestock farmer from MT. Great to see how the potatoes are grown. In my graduate wortk at Oregonstate I Worked for the potato breeding project and Foundation seed. Very informative farming video.
That’s cool that you worked on breeding potato seed. I always wondered how that worked. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
super interesting , thanx for the vid !
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
I always wanted to drive a loader since I was a kid. Was in awe of the loader from way back....
They are pretty fun to drive
ive always wanted to see how potatoes was done dont see alot of it on youtube and i think its pretty cool
Yeah, there’s only a handful of channels on TH-cam that actually Farm potatoes. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Well this is just fascinating. Farming, especially modern farming, is super cool.
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching
I loved the detail you show on how the planter works. The only thing I was left wondering about was how it produced so much vacuum. All my life I've had this insatiable desire to see how things work.
There are two big fans that spin with the PTO that produced the suction. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Had no idea,,,very good,,,ever time eat a potato will remember
Glad you enjoyed it. It’s definitely quite a process to get a potato to grow.
there is an oil additive for wet breaks, it helps for better breaking and no squeaking, ask you local supplier
Thanks we will have to check it out
Grainfarming is a holiday compared to potatofarming🤠
Potatoes are definitely difficult. Glad you enjoyed the video
I grew up on a small farm in northwest Ontario, Canada in 1950's. Dad had a one-row planter originally built to be pulled by 2 horses, used picks instead of vacuums but otherwise identical. Converted it to tractor pull when i was maybe 6 yrs old. Had a onerow digger as well, all worked excellent.
Yeah things have grown a bit since then. Spudnik makes a 12 row planter
Great video and explanation...thank you. A huge operation, running like clockwork.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for planting my potatoes for a store near me.
Our pleasure!
Excellent videography. You showed use all the interesting stuff. I learned a lot. Keep doing what you are doing.
I’m glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching.
You do a great videothank you from ascotsman retired in brazil
Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
What a system for putting the potatoes in the ground! Those suction cups are crazy.
Yeah, they work pretty well too
Did anyone else hear this April about a water war imminent in Idaho ? Even with all of the rain and snow the last two years ( thanks to that submerged volcano popping two years ago in Hunga Tonga) the inept 'authorities' are claiming the farmers can't irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of crops this year.
Yeah it’s going to be bad there’s over 100,000 acres that will not be able to get watered. It might even be close to 500,000 acres. The bad thing is everybody’s crops were already planted and then they told them they couldn’t water them. Luckily, we are not affected because most of our farm is watered with surface water.
great explanations about the whole process. i learned stuff. learning is good. thx
Thanks for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it
hundreds of channels about corn and soybeans this is the only one I've come across about taters
You know, that’s one of the reasons I started the channel is because I couldn’t find anything about potatoes, and I wanted to teach people where they came from. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
3 Abreast, Magnificent!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed it
ITS POTATO SEASON!!!!! Now the long 4 1/2 month wait to harvest!
Yes, it’s usually a struggle to keep all of the pivots running to water the potatoes.
Great video, thanks
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for the video. May GOD bless.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
We used to sit one each side of a hopper, and drop a seed potato down the tube when the bell sounded. We had to drive a LOT slower as well. We only farmed 30 acres though.
That does sound slow. Things have definitely changed.
Very. Cool. Learned a lot!
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching
Amazes me to see how GPS steering has opened so many options for farming! Just started to see it back in2007-8.
It has made farming more efficient for sure. Glad you enjoyed the video.
This was very interesting. What we would”d like to see, if you haven’t shown it already is how you prepped the seed. I watched the harvest last fall, now you are planting. I have missed a step.
I showed how we do that a few videos ago go take a look here th-cam.com/video/eKGtjEkA_QY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yKHpt_T_jI3IUEWI
I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
Awesome video! I really liked the side by side of all 3, that is some great looking video!
Thanks. It took some time to setup. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks great video great to see how broad acre planting happens 😀
Glad you enjoyed it
Totally Awesome 👏 Thanks
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Back in the 80’s a couple pivots were planted south of Holcomb in SW Kansas as a test. I didn’t hear how it panned out. I know planting per acre costs were much much higher compared to corn and soybeans but the potential for return was said to be really good.
Yeah, the return on potatoes is much more than any other crop that we have seen but they are also harder to manage
Amazing work with them machines is you should change thr loader to a tele handler you'd have more reach over thr bins brilliant work great videos 👍
We were looking for a tele handler this year but we’re not able to find one that was affordable. I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos.
good job guys, keep going!!!!!
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it
Massey anti-squak fluid added to your loader might stop the brake noise and smooth the brakes. It worked for me. Excellent Video!
Thanks for the tip! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
Very good video as always !
Thanks. I’m glad you liked it
Good job filming great I watch from Morocco farm happy thank you for sharing and explanation
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it
Quite an operation enjoyed the video and informative.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic.
Is this on Rocky Moutain House ?
Great that you took the time, out of your very busy life to show us.
Good luck with your operation.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’m not sure what Rocky Mountain house is? Thanks for watching.
Great video! I am behind the curve on watching your videos, but I will catch up. Thanks.
I’m glad you enjoy the channel. Thanks for watching.
Thanks!
Thanks for watching
Just came across your channel, never knew exactly how potatoes were planted. Great explanations, great camera angles. Subscribed and liked....cuz like spuds.👍👍🍻. Greetings from NE rural Ohio.
Awesome I’m glad you liked the video and thanks for the sub and the comment.
There’s many ways to do it America and a few other countries do it like that over in the U.K. we ridge then separate the land and plant after personal think it’s a better way but everyone has there own opinion and does things differently and that’s okay also could depend on the land how you do it many ways to plant potatoes
Very interesting. Never knew exactly how it was done. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
another great video very informative will be waiting for the next one
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
I have hogged potatoes and onoins. Twenty years later and I still don't cry cutting onions.
Cool thanks for watching
WOW!!!!!!!!❤❤...That's Food security right there
Yeah that’s true. Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
That was really interesting. I figured I had to use some type of machinery to plant Potatoes in 1200 and.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
My 1st time here. Awesome video ❤❤❤
Thanks for coming. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I always wondered how potatoes were planted now days. Several years ago I found this horse drawn potato planter at my in-laws place in South Dakota. I brought it home and restored it. It uses a similar principle in that it skewers the potatoes from the hopper and drops them in the ground and then has disks to cover them up.
That’s cool I bet it looks good being restored. Glad you like the video.
This is perystaltic pump, they are very accurate and can work with various speed.
They work great and almost no maintenance or nozzles to clean
first time to your channel, great content and explanation of the process. Subscribed!
Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Great camera work to show the closeup process!
Glad you enjoyed it
yes!
Glad you enjoyed it
I didnt know even potatoe planting was steeped in tech this deep..
Yes and harvest is even more involved. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks
No problem thanks for watching
VERY NICE VIDEO I THINK YOU ARE DOING GREAT WORK, THATS A LOT OF POTATOES, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU.
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
Of you add friction modifier to the case axles it takes care of the brake noise. Coming from a mechanic who worked on a lot of high hour case loaders
Good to know
Is that because CASE is a WET brake system. I cut my teeth on my dad's lap on the old 580- CK backhoe. Doing the front bucket backfill. I have run every model of the 580 series backhoe. When I retired I bought myself a Dynahoe-190. I ran one in 1979 it was a beast of 19000 pounds. My baby is a 1978 with 8000 hours on the old 353 Detroit Diesel. I keep clean oil and filter in her. And have an Engine block heater. It helps at start up on her.
OMG that was a really Good Vlog you explained it really well and I loved it have SUB to you in the hopes you have more in depth Vlogs re your Farm Thanks You Keep up the Great Vlogs
Thanks for the sub! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Was loading in montana one time near Belgrade seems they had a bear decided to sleep in the bunker overnight. Workers were unpleasantly surprised when they were preparing to loads truck that morning
That would be pretty crazy
That is a lot of seed potatoes!
30000 sacks
GPS sure helps planting around pivots, I typically use last years lines and can start at the pivot, makes it easy haha. Just finished planting yesterday :) hope things are going well!
Yes gps makes a huge difference. Glad you got your crops planted. Hopefully it’s a good year
Thanks and same to you!
How does the seed fall off the suction? Would love to see a slow-mo closeup of that process. Nice video. Man that is a lot of potato, just the seed !!
There is a little pipe that blows them off. We do have a lot of potatoes. Glad you enjoyed it
a friend's house had a potato farm 🚜 next door, we played in it a bit once and i remember seeing lots of signs right there on a subsequent visit. 😅
That’s interesting
Great explanation of how everything works and enjoyed the close ups of the equipment!! Lots of maintenance items to keep up with. You probably mentioned what variety of potato you plant and I missed it. They look like Russet potatoes. What percent of your harvest go to seed potatoes? Love the aerial view at the end.
I’m glad you liked the video. The variety of potato is a russet ranger. We don’t grow any of our own seed. All of these will go into making potato flakes that be turned into things like Pringles and mashed potatoes.
Hello from Kerrville Tx
Welcome! Thanks for watching.
First time planting red potatoes. I learned how to plant them properly today. Going to buy a multimillion dollar machine for my backyard planting next year...., 🤣
Ha ha I think that would be a little overkill
Hey drone footage really fantastic and amazing it amused me and such drone footage within mountain make scene very beautiful and this landscaping view is breathing you should make drone footage at the start of the video which makes video more interesting and why you don't use other type of planters like as spudnik or Grimme which fertilizer you apply down and how much per acre and how much you invest on potatoes this year thanks for making video
I’m glad you enjoyed the video I do like taking drone footage because of the mountains. We don’t use any other planters because they don’t go as fast. And we do put fertilizer down. I’m not sure how much per acre but we put 100 gallons per fill of the planter
Good morning! Great Video y'all, thank you! Was curious, are y'all growing for the fresh or processor market? I worked for McCain Foods for many, many years and always love watching the spuds go in the ground! Sincerely appreciate what y'all do, farmers are the backbone of our country! Thank you!
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. All of ours go to process.
What are most farmers in your area planting? Do you rotate crops? What are they rotated with? Do you do any grain?
We rotate potatoes grain and some hay. There are a lot of crops grown around here. I’ve seen corn, canola, mustard, sugar beets, grass, and quinoa. There is probably something I’m missing.
HT for the camera work. Productivity is off the chart.
Well, I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.
@@RockyMountainFarmer Cheers ;)
What variety of potato are you planting. Great video.
These are Russet Rangers. Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
One way to speed up your loading is to use a small conveyor lot less down time.
Yeah we have been looking into that
Here in Idaho they use a big payloader and a bucket the width of the planter
This video could be mistaken for a southern Alberta potato farm, southern Alberta has the largest potato production in Canada. I used to contact haul vegetables to storage and processing plants, the biggest plants here being McCain's, Frito lay, lamb Weston and Cavendish Farms.
That’s just north of here a few hours. Thanks for watching.
Interesting that the planter does not come with the row leveling bar you custom add to the planters.
Which french fries do you like the best???
I think that was an option, but it was way cheaper to just make it ourselves. I really like Wendy’s fries.
Great video! You guys certainly can cover some ground in a day? An a great back drop of the rocky mts!
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it. I love the mountains in the background
@@RockyMountainFarmer those fields are huge! I farm in nys. An you really have to go some to find a 50 acre field..and you grow all russets than for fresh 🍟?
@@paullhommedieu2795 yeah, there’s some big fields out here and yes, we grow all russets they get turned into potato flakes we used to grow for the company that made McDonald’s fries
@@RockyMountainFarmer was that company lamb an westen? I got a tour of one of their plants in Oregon many years ago..also got a tour of a basic American foods plant in the kalmath basin..they made flakes there 4 Pringles potato chips..the process was amazing..
@@paullhommedieu2795 yes we grew for Lamb Weston for about 30 years so if you have eaten at McDonald’s in the last 30 years, there’s a chance you ate one of our potatoes
Very nice drone footage. Your soil was very soft i guess it is required to plant potatoes?
Thanks. Yes it has to be soft for potatoes
radial conveyor for loading planter
That would be great
You are blessed with great soil. Have you built up the ground with cover crops?
We have never actually done a cover crop, but we do haul, from my uncles dairy, about 4000 loads of cow manure every year so that really builds up the soil
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Your uncle must have a lot of cattle and horses.
@@carlkucharski9758 no horses just dairy cows and yes he has about 4000 cows
OK I have questions…I was up in Ashton last weekend, where I know they grow lots of seed potatoes. (Actually, I was in Last Chance and drove through Ashton to fish the Warm River.) Anyway, the fields around Ashton were just beautifully leveled. Didn’t look like anything was planted in them at all. My question is this: Do you hill your fields before you plant them, or does the planter do that for you? And, do you hill your potatoes after you grow them? Finally, what is the difference between Lockwood and Double L equipment? Are they both good? Great video. I’m excited I found this channel!
Up in Ashton, they might not have planted yet. I know they have a shorter growing season in order to get small seed potatoes but also some guys grow that in beds which look a little bit different. As far as for us, we do not Hill before. we just work the ground so it’s soft and let the planters make the hills, I come through with the dammer diker after and make the hills better. Lockwood and double L are different companies. I like the double L beds but we’ve never used any of their other equipment and I like the Lockwood planters but I don’t like any of their other equipment, all of our harvest equipment is Spudnik. I’m glad you found the channel and I hope you’re enjoying it.