Potato Farming

Movie about the various aspects of potato farming from digging to shipping the final product. Filmed on a friends farm last summer when I helped him harvest and fix equipment failures.
This operation is the only commercial potato farm in South Carolina. The best potato's I've ever eaten too by the way. This years harvest starts next week.
The only aspect not shown in the video is the planting of potatoes. Entire video and stills shot on a Canon A630 digital camera. I carried the camera on my belt in a custom made Vel-Tye case the whole time I worked there and shot as I had time and opportunity. Awesome camera for the money.
Movie made with iMovie on my MacBook. Music tracks are from Garage Band.
This is my first video project. It's weak I know, but it was fun to shoot and assemble.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• potato
• farming
• harvest
• short
• film
• documentary
• International
• Year
• of
• the
• Potato
• bulk
• loading
• washing
• bagging

[habsfan898989]

not very many potatoes coming out of the ground.....i agree with sanders

[helicopterdriver]

Not a very good yield because of a late frost that stunted most of this part of his crop. Any of you farmers? He is the only commercial potato farmer in the state and has started with nothing.

This video was shot solely for fun and nothing was staged. I could have spent hours making everything perfect but we were working 16 hour days. Educational at best.

We shipped several hundred thousand pounds.

Perfect potatoes? I've never seen one. Free lessons gladly accepted....

[habsfan898989]

Yeah I am a potato farmer actually. Sorry to hear about the late frost. What state is this taken place in? I'm from PEI, Canada. We had some problems with late blight this year, mainly due to the perfect blight conditions

[helicopterdriver]

South Carolina is where this facility is. He started farming in New Jersey and brought his skills and love for farming to South Carolina many years ago. He is experimenting with various types of potatoes to maximize the yield for the climate. So far he has given up on red potatoes because they won't hold the color in the heat here. 100 degrees is not uncommon here.

Not familiar with the blight but I'm sure it is disheartening after all the expense and effort to plant and cultivate.

[GermanTHR]

way to many points where they can fall deep... you should take a look at our farm here in germany, potatos shouldnt fall at all

[helicopterdriver]

Remember that this is a process that has been created from old equipment to fit the space he has. This year the flume and washer are much bigger and the process is much faster... constantly improving. Most people in the US have never even had a fresh potato....

[SpudcuttersInc]

I watch this video for 9 damn minutes and not once did they tell me how many ways they can cut a spud. DISLIKE

[ndfcowboy]

thanks for shooting this!



[peipotatoguy]

nice to see how the others in the potato industry do things. Cheftains would be a variety that will take the heat as a red, and Kennebec would also take the heat if you are looking for a round white.

[IIFlippy]

REBOOT GlaDOS

[whonow09]

WE WILL NEED TO USE THOSE POTATOES TO REBOOT APERTURE SCIENCE LABRATORY

[MunchyToast001]

So much potato , that could supply the aperture science GLaDOS for a another bunch of years.

[Petervg1]

slow down those primary and seconday chains on that digger! they are going approximatly 2 times faster then they should be, all those pototoes you see hopping, dancing and jumping shouldnt happen, they should be fairly settled as they ride up the digger chains...

[Chad01234]

I'm trying to understand how difficult potato farming was in Ireland (Post 1845 blight). Say one had 5 acres (prob max size allowed at the turn of the century). How much harvest would this produce. How many laborers? How difficult to bring a yield? Thank you if anyone knows the answers to this.

P.S. what is the Arab music I hear after the banjo selection? Thank you!

[Chad01234]

I'm trying to understand how difficult potato farming was in Ireland (Post 1845 blight). Say one had 5 acres (prob max size allowed at the turn of the century). How much harvest would this produce. How many laborers? How difficult to bring a yield? Thank you if anyone knows the answers to this.

[TheMorsader]

awsome video mate i work for a potato farmer in nz and our process is kinda the same ill post videos of how we do it over in little new zealand lol watch this space.