Yuma Arizona Lettuce Farm - America's Heartland
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Set the table for a story on the lettuce you enjoy at home. Southwest Arizona has long been known as "America's Winter Salad Bowl." That's because when the snowflakes are flying up north, the farms around Yuma, Arizona are bringing in a wide variety of lettuce shipped all across the country.
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I like the fact that they still grew the lettuce and other salads under open sky, and not under plastic like many modern farmers do.
Thank you for being a farmer and producing good quality food.
We used to harvest wheat down in yuma. Was fun being down there in such high yielding wheat.
Much of it goes to Italy. If you have some pasta in Rome it might be from Yuma!
Never know about Yuma before. Such young farmers. Nice to be out there so beautiful farms.
My father work all is life picking up lettuce in California, Arizona, NM and Colorado this is a real job I work in the lettuce for 20 years this job is only for mexicanos is no joke all the jobs in the fields are for real.
Thanks It's hard back breaking work. Workers should be paid more
I'm too a small time farmer. We produce lettuce here in the Highland north, Philippines.
I just got back after bringing a tour group from japan to tour the yuma area agriculture with a guide from the U Of A agricultural center and its truly amazing the amount of science that goes into growing everything there from broccoli to celery to citrus ...very interesting ,
Three crops a year, even in the hot Summer seeds, alfalfa, Summer wheat & other crops grow in Yuma. Few places in the world can say that.
Farmers are gods who keep people alive
I also love America farmers. Not only, America farmers in watching this video in the world of the people. Whatever, A lot of thanks on behalf of me. From Bangladesh.
AMEN AZ Farmer's blessing on ya'll!
j'Y AI PASSÉ 3MOIS ET DEMI EN 2009 AVEC PLEIN D'AMIS ET C'EST UN PAYS
MAGNIQUE.BONNE TEMPERATURE.LES LÉGUMES Y POUSSENT A UNE VITESSE FOLLE.
great farmer God bless america
gilberto nova Thank you Gilberto. May God bless you and your family as well. Thanks for watching!
healthy foods... lovely.. i love it buy now appreciate...
and so
I love yuma arizona
Thanks for the information
Let's go #FARMERS#WORLDWIDE WE HAVE TO FIGHT AS ONE
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When he say "time for a picknick," I thought he was referring to the workers. Lol
Why did you spell picnic so wrong
EVEN I THOUGHT SO INITIALLY.
😂
@@owenwammes4052 its a non comical attempt at a racial joke.
Thank you for feeding us. I'm at Malaysia
The 2nd MOST IMPORTANT thing is weather...the 1st most important thing is Colorado River water. Without irrigation, its just a bone dry desert.
The land gives us everything.....with a lot of work....
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Great job
That looks delicious
I can theoretically see my house from here.
love your video.
Lol the adorable journalist should have asked what kind of pesticides the farmers are exposed to, if the lettuce is organic, and what the workers get paid
Mateo 780 je odlican prikaz agrotehnike i njenog istorijata hvala vam
There isn't a weed in that field. They must use roundup and roundup ready lettuce.
cruciferousvegetable
Good observation! All the weed were removed by people walking through the field and removing them with hoes. It's an age old farming practice to reduce weed pressure by eliminating weeds before they go to seed. Also, to respond to your other point, there are no gmo lettuce seeds available meaning that no, Roundup wasn't used in this field. If roundup would have been used here it would have killed the lettuce as well as the weeds. But, that is obviously not the case.
was thinking that it was weeded from farmers . you know how much round up would cost to do a field like that? $10,000.00 aday probly
jason bachtel As stated before, there isn't any GMO lettuce, so you question isn't all that relevant to this field, or any field of lettuce. That being said, here is some info you might be interested in: Our cost of weeding an average acre of lettuce is appropriately $175per acre, per season. That includes having a crew of people who make about $10-11/hr. walk through the field removing weeds with hoes 2-3 different times throughout the 70-120 days were growing that crop. 1 acre is slightly smaller than a football field, not counting the end zones. That field that Rob is standing in is about 10 acres. It would cost about $20/acre to apply a pesticide application to the field, and Roundup costs about $10-20/acre depending on how much material is needed to effectively control your target weeds.
jason bachtel :
I like picking my own vegetables from a farm
Simply amazing
I’m Montagnard i love vegetables .
WOOO GO YUMA!!!! I LIVE THERE LOL
Good job, next step is seeing if you can salvage the land from being polluted from pesticides and try to get more organic lettuce.
Mark Sky the Off-Grid RV Guy I appreciate your perspective Mark. However, no pollution is happening on our organic or conventional fields. These fields have been producing fresh fruits and vegetables for nearly 100 years, and our farming practices keep getting better. You should come out and see for yourself. I'd be glad to give you a tour.
@@johnboelts1372 may I take a tour
Nice video
I loaded this food at Yuma once. When loading at warehouse, packers, Jet fighters taking off, bout 100 ft. Overmy head. Marine Air Base i think.
if they could only get them to the market that green and fresh
People complaining about how they ‘throw away’ the outer leaves are the same people harping on about permaculture, people, you do realize that those leaves are falling on the soil in which crops are grown. Think about what happens to those leaves.
What a content dear
it would be interesting to know what the irrigation source for this farm
Roma P. We’re actually right next to the Colorado River
I can't imagine the pesticides sitting on those lettuce leaves, there isn't a bug or a weed in that field!
No problem they are wearing protective gear
There are minimal pests there and there are also no residues on the plants. They are tested before being harvested.
i love lettuce
I will save this video for any Vegetarian again start an argument with me.
It just blows my mind that we ever thought this was okay. This is why we are in a crisis
My favorite vegetable...specialy eating with sweet meat.
I want the full green leaves, the hearts are junk.
Bela plantacao
I've been through Yuma several times. They get those times where the dirt/dust is all in the air and have to get to watering constantly. How's this play in with the obvious water shortages in Arizona?
Mark Allen Channel great question. Almost all of the dust comes from the desert around Yuma. There is only 280 sq. miles of farm ground in Yuma County, but there is over 5,000 sq. miles of desert.
Arizona is a mexican territory this is wrong, the slaves must be blond
H CB this area of arizona was purchased from Mexico in 1853. Stay in school kids.
@@hcb9724 Pretty stupid statement, HCB. If it belonged to Mexico there would be a minimal economy.
@@MrDannyrico1 purchased with guns, that's robery.
You notice you did'nt see his family eat any!
I leke work at farms and very good
contract workers ?
Interesting.
Me too
Hi.What`s the roman lettuce variety you cutting in the video called?I would like to get some seeds and plant it in my back garden.
The fact that he didn't start the video with "Lettuce talk about our main salad vegetable." Leaves me feeling really disappointed.
Huge E-coli outbreak nation wide right now. Thanks to lettuce coming form Yuma Arizona..wonder how that happened?
Ameican's Tuve la dicha de trabajar en Yuma Arizona en la lechuga de tierra y la de sin corazón y es un trabajo que asta hoy me gustó si uviera oportunidad de volver lo aria
can i grow lettuce in south Texas? already planted sweet corn ..still got a lot of room to play with.
You can grow lettuce anywhere
+Dustin The Ninja thanks
I am from india do me labor job
If its highly skilled labor, how much are you paying them?
They're only human. They aren't lizard people. They can't get lizard people wages or there will be trouble. That's how lizard people do.
Interesting pogram
Lettuce Pray.
Isn't this desert? how do they grow romaine in such hot conditions?
+Luke Morrison Yuma is in the middle of the desert, yes. However, sediments deposited by the Colorado River here over the course of millions of years have made the soil around Yuma some of the most fertile in the world. Combine this with 91% sunshine year round (Because of this, the Guinness Book of World Records lists Yuma as the "Sunniest City in the World"), mild winters with little to no danger of frost, and the nearby Colorado River, and you have these results. Yuma is known as the "Winter Lettuce Capital of the World," as 90-95% of the lettuce consumed in the U.S. from October-April is grown here in/around Yuma.
+Luke Morrison By depleting aquifers and the soil
Arizonan 2509 wow great answer. Are nights "cooler" in yuma? like around 60? I hear that's essential to growing crisp lettuce.
It varies. During the summer, lows can stay in the high 80's to low 90's. Yeah, that's how hot it can get here. But 9 months out of the year, the lows can range from pleasant to pretty chilly. So from October to around mid May, temps at night can range from high 60's to mid/low 30's during the heart of winter.
What do they grow in summer i wonder (assuming it is too hot to grow lettuce there).
ustedes no contratan mano de obra mexicana,?en Chetumal quintana roo México,
I think he call the worker’s 😂 yahhh dreams
Wearing hair net IN A FIELD is just hilarious! I'm interested if it was a film director's or the farmer's idea to pretend that the field is a sterile environment. It would be even better if they worn surgeon's scrubs there.
Dont forget to wear biohazard suit
I planted 500 lettuce on soil(outdoor), but it did not come in a good condition due to insects and bacteria. What can I do to stop this problem please somebody help me :/
Where are you growing?
Cover your crop with hoop row covers to keep insects out organically. Know your water source. Water contamination is the primary source of bacteria contamination. No fresh manure! Location: No deer or wildlife feeding areas, no farmyard locations. Animal droppings contaminate veggies with E coli and salmonella.
h baker As far as ecoli all you can do is try your best. On a big commercial operation you test your irrigation wster, etc. And still birds can fly over and drop poop in the field and on crops or irrigation ditches. A worker may have stepped in some dog shit on the way to the fields. The govt as well as big customers sre tightening up regs and audits on all of this, especially for larger farm operstions.
As to why the guy's lettuce doesn't grow well, could be many things. Most likely wrong climate, too hot, wrong varieties, leafhoppers and aphids vectoring disease, etc, etc.
Lettuce generally dont get hit hard by insects. Slugs may be a problem. Check out watch?v=_pgcvN6TuE8
What is the type of flat lettuce?
I've always said "Let us eat lettuce".
lettuce not let us let's let us let lettuce grow
AMERICAN SALAD BOWL!!!
good bless those Mexicans
Omar Husseini mama
Which city is in America?
please explain to me this, how does lettuce from a huge lettuce farm in Southern California, end up in NYC?
Anthony Gjolaj there is something called 18 wheelers
Anthony Gjolaj great question. Cut and transported to a cooler where the boxed lettuce is cooled to 35 degrees, within 1.5 hours of cutting in the field. Then loaded onto an over the road truck which is driven by one or two drivers across the US or Canada, straight to a supermarket or restaurant distribution center, and then on to your retail store or restaurant, all with in 5 or so days. All of that happens while maintaining the product cool at 35 degrees so the lettuce looks and eats its best, for you!
thank you
Only if you knew the hard work semi truck drivers do to get that fresh fruit and vegetables to the store from the farm warehouse. Pulling a refrigerated trailer is the worst and hardest job in trucking. Driving 750 miles a day, eating quick fast food and skipping a shower day when going to east coast and sleeping in a noisy ass truck stop.
No excuses, loads needs to be delivered as soon as possible.
Dis Master dude that's nothing compared to the guys that cut That lettuce
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of
drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
If everyone knew about how toxic sugar truly is then this guy would be a billionaire if he expands.
3:57 is a paid actor
Any of these crops GMO?
+papaike2 If you want to avoid GMO, stay away from Corn. Corn is entirely GMO. Man Made Hybrid from Day One.
+TheDustysix wow what a dumb statement
Not in the least. NO SUCH THING AS CORN WITHOUT MAN. You will never find a field of corn growing wild. South American Indians invented Corn. Splicing or pollinating I do not recall which. Corn is entirely man made GMO.
I was surprised when I learned this in a college class. However, having doing some growing up around the stuff, it never occurs naturally. Do your own research, I did years ago. I passed. A or B.
+TheDustysix Did the Indians put in Botulinum toxin, Antibiotic genes, Roundup-ready and terminator genes? Or did they just select for larger grains?
Why is a romaine heart desirable? That's the bitter part. Why is green leafy goodness bad and discarded? To me its the only part I want.
I know it's sad. The amount of veg that is trimmed off before shipping is insane.
How come they don't talk about the people that do the harvesting there that ones that need to get more props..
Hello
I live near arecers of farm
wonder what they get paid? hell I went to collage and still cant find a job. lol well a job that don't pay min wage.
Well some pay $12.65 an hr
delusional rate figure. the owners would go broke paying that rate. most produce farmers pay their laborers based on unit. ie. box of lettuce and the rate is in pennies not dollars.
Joey :3 my friend its less then that and they get not benfits no 401k or etc
well atless we get to eat
some pay below $3.50 an hour. Most, actually.
Whose water are they using?
Your moms 😊
Is this where the E.coli came from?
columbusohio72
🤔Same reason why I'm here...
SoulRx lol. I think its contained now
3:10 to Yuma....lol
Are they organic lettuces?
Nope this lettuces is full in chemicals ;(
Antreas Cy Wrong.
How many acres??
3,000
woooooooooooooooow
But they still can't figure out how to grow it without contaminating it with Ecoli. Grow your own.
If you can do it so much better, then why don't you start a lettuce farming operation?
Thanks to Mexicans !!!
yes like they used to work in the good old days so they can make this country as it is now and to let those mexicans going with this job
+Ghkjdf Hbjhffh What are you saying I like to know where you work
It is truly a tragedy that this area will now be suspect as sources of contaminated Romaine. The O157"H7 form of d.Coli which has now killed a consumer, the source of which must be found in order to preserve the areas reputation as a provider of safe produce.
The farmers fight back by placing temporary fencing around the fields, have water trucks that constantly keep the dirt roads wet & keep a close watch on the fields to prevent animals & humans out of their fields. There is contamination in all food no matter where it is grown, the key to to eliminate as much of it as possible.
Thumbs up for big produce companies that exploit their workers by paying them less than a living wage.
I love this video. What I did not like was this severe duty trucking commercial that shows up so unexpectantly before the Arizona lettuce video begins. That guy is the most unwanted personality in the entirety of North America. I cannot delete that damn commercial. Whoever you are stop imposing on my YT. Got that? Okay? I hope I made my point perfectly clear.
Good jop
Are these sprayed with poisons?
no just milk.
Let it go. Built a wall see what happen
E. Coli !!!!!!
who commute to the U.S daily
I was exited to watch this,then realized that all the workers are in biochemical outfits,TO PICK LETTUCE.
and thanks for all the hard workers that do this.
Don Montoya which then gets fed to the American ppl lol this farmer is such a joke. Just an exploitive guero trying to make a buck off of stupid Americans
Don Montoya Those aren't biotech suits, Don. The people harvesting the lettuce are wearing aprons and gloves for the same reason your dentist wears similar garments, to protect you. We don't want anything getting in the food you will be eating. Hairnets, gloves, aprons and the like are a logical step to prevent contamination and provocation of allergies.
@Alice Rabbit You're a disgusting human. I really hope you're not American!
@Alice Rabbit Damn. I'm embarrased to be American because of idiots like you. Shame.
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