We rush to save our rotting potato cellar!
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- In this urgent episode, we discover that one of our potato cellars is starting to rot due to the recent heatwave. Join us as we scramble to salvage as much of our crop as possible. Watch the team in action, learn about the challenges we face, and see how we manage to turn a potential disaster into a learning experience. Don't miss out on the highs and lows of this intense rescue mission! Subscribe for more updates on our farming journey and tips on how to protect your crops from extreme weather.
What you guys do is absolutely amazing. I have said it before but I never understood your trials and tribulations and the process to produce potatoes. Thank you again.
Well, I’m glad I’m able to help you understand what goes into producing food
OH I can smell it! Too many memories of rotten spuds!
Yeah, the smell is not great
Having had a single small potato roll behind my fridge one year, that had a terrible smell until we found it. Not sure how many tons was in that cellar, but the smell must be rougher than hell... Good job the buyer had paid for them, let's hope he can salvage a good number...
There are 7,000,000 pounds of potatoes in this cellar. We are actually doing a pretty good job of getting them cleaned up and hauled in but we are losing some.
@@RockyMountainFarmer That's a lot of potatoes. Hope you can get the place cleaned up in time for this year's crop to go in there.
Really cool to see how large amounts of spuds are stored, transferred and transported.
Definitely one of my top 3 veggies.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. They are delicious
Glad that you were able to same the majority, what a shame for that many to starting to rot.
I hope we don’t lose too many
I can remember the smell from hauling them to a starch factory and also potato flakes flakes
Good luck with your year and getting anything done
It’s already been a crazy year
Can't smell that bad. I don't see juice running out the doors! 😂👍
we have a similar shed but we installed a cold floor AC system, basically we installed a mile long pipe into the floor and connected to a industrial AC unit... keeps the same temp all year round... it doesnt justift buying a purpose built shed for storing potatos when we grow potatos, carrots and OSR
im surprised they left it that long, we would never let produce go to sprout like that, but then again its depending on the contract i guess...
we plant potatos in feb and aug how ever we also plant for new potato shorter grow period but tasty smaller potatos... just right for washing then baking or airfrying...
That sounds like a pretty good setup
I have a friend thats a farmer too, it is so sad to see all the work ans effords rotting under your eyes. I hope you have a solid contract so they ll pay u anyway
Yeah it’s not great to see your crop rot. We only get paid for what we can deliver.
keep up dateing us i love it shows what a farmer has to put up with
I will keep them coming
I enjoy seeing your grandpa on his 4 wheeler. Both grandpas past before I was born.
He is always out checking on things.
I work on a farm in England I know exactly how that store small we had a store go down earlier this year. We had juice in the tunnel.good luck to you getting your potatoes out .
Yeah, it’s no fun when they get this messy we are currently using a loader to scoop them out
O I've been there done that before only we had a dirt floor and 6 inches of water and mush, cleaned out 1/2 celler one tractor bucket and dump truck at a time into a sink hole I do not envy you fellers
Yeah it’s not great
My great grandfather and gg grandfather stored his potato seeds in saw dust in building. He had a successful potato business yrs yrs ago. Sold seeds all over USA and into Canada and Mexico
That’s awesome. I’ve never seen it stored in sawdust.
@@RockyMountainFarmer this was back in the day. . My gg grandfather past in 1919. He had two sheds. Back when I started genealogy the building existed. I don't how he did it. But my guess maybe layerr of sawdust then potatoes then layer of sawdust. Upstate NY. I have been wondering if maybe his seeds maybe floating around somewhere. I am sure things have changed since he sold potato seeds.
Since covid, 5 or 10 pound bags of potatoes i buy from local stores often have several rotting potatoes.
That’s unfortunate
OH MAN, nothing smells worse than a rotten cellar. I can smell it now, you never forget it.
Yeah, it smells pretty bad
Someone should be held accountable, big investment
I agree
Sorry to see the spuds rotting in the bin.my uncle had a whole warehouse rot on him back in 93.we had to haul them out and dump the spuds in the field.his were chippers
Luckily, we are saving a lot of them
@@RockyMountainFarmer great to hear that
Nice to watch this video and make video about potatoes which you sow
Glad you enjoyed it
Rotting potatoes give off solanine gas, which can kill you if enough is inhaled. I wouldn't wander into that tunnel too far next time.
Good to know
I would be afraid to go in there. I read a story about a whole family that died from poisonous gas that formed in the cellar where they were storing potatoes they would walk in and drop dead and then another family member would do the same.
Lol I was just thinking about that story myself!
Yeah, that sounds pretty bad. We made sure to have respirators and we had all the doors open with the wind blowing through so it wasn’t an issue.
I remember when I worked in Alabama,they would run the rotting potatoes,and what ever was left of the potato,was skid loaded into a reefer 53 footer,and was sold to the mash potato companies.😮😮😮
That’s interesting
We got a gunny sack of potatoes from you last year and we would like to purchase some more from you.
I don’t think you would like the ones we have in storage they are starting to not look so great.
Yes that was very interesting I hope we can see more of this
Well, there is more coming
The sad thing is all the money and effort you put into growing and harvesting the crop is wasted. This only hurts the FARMER not all the brokers or super market chains but when prices rise they blame the farmer.
Very true.
Great Video! cant imagine the smell of those potato's!
Glad you enjoyed it. It smells pretty nasty.
Sorry about that.
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It’d be interesting to see that operation at the plant
We set up our own wash plant video coming soon
What are you guys do to clean it out after that do you do anything to clean out the rot and nasty
We will probably have to scrape a lot of the floor out and put new dirt in there and have it redone
There aren’t too many things that stink as bad as rotten potatoes
True
Thats unfortunate !!
What most people watching don't realize is you folks are also losing money on the shrink, like all the sprouts and as well as the rot. Money that could have been made had they taken them when they were in good condition. When were they supposed to be gone by?
Also is it in the contract for the processor to load and haul the potatoes?
Yeah, we only get paid for what we can bring in and what they can actually use so we are definitely losing some money on this cellar. I’m not sure what the contract says.
Thats a lot of potatos 🥔
Yes it is
Would be cool to see a video of that water jet cleaning all the potatoes.
Well, there’s a couple videos of that if you watch the next few
Can you tell me what company bought these potatoes so I can avoid them for a few months
I have no idea
Usually just eat the potatoes right that's like your Root cellar basically that's not working properly
Don't miss that ammonia stink! Will never forget that smell
It’s pretty nasty
What is the date of this happening? And how many more cellars do you have to get cleaned out?
This was around the 20th and we have 6 cellars full. More than 500 thousand sacks left to haul in.
Good luck getting things cooled off. Are spuds prone to ethylene ripening each other?
I’m not sure if they ripen that way or not
why not scooping it all out with the loader? This takes sooo much time. We always scoop the cellars with the loader or forklift with bucket because it goes way quicker
Because the scooper does less damage to the cellar. Also, if you watch the most recent video, that’s what we had to do and it pretty much destroyed the cellar floor
@@RockyMountainFarmer that's indeed different because we have floors from concreet plates with ventilation sleeves in it, so we will never damage the floor
Wow thats crazy thats a shit load.
Yeah it’s a lot
Hate to say it but that was a bit late. I could not sell those anywhere.
They are taking them at the processor
Tiny inadequate tools
What a fiasco
A huge waste
Greed manifested
This is quite sad. Are you taking the loss on any of this or has the processor paid you for the full harvest?
We will take a loss on anything we cannot deliver
@@RockyMountainFarmer I see. But you have delivered it's the processor that hasn't picked up the spuds, should not that responsibility lie on them? You guys can't control whenever they want to load?
That’s kind of our thought process but I guess that’s not what the contract says
So the company that you have contracted with, they don’t take those potatoes. Do you wind up eating the cost?
Who failed at maintaining the cellar for them to get that bad what are they making out of them
The cellar doesn’t have refrigeration, and it just started to get hot. These would be made into potato flakes.
@@RockyMountainFarmer rotten or not they’ll still probably become instant potatoes
A cat got in and ruined one of the fans so they air wasn't circulated properly.
@8:15 😮 thats gonna take months to load up them potatoes. There has to be a better way.
Rotting potatoes are the worst.
My question is, what is the product being produced with these potatoes? Vodka, maybe?
These will be made into potato flakes, and turned into things like Pringles
Why is there so many potatoes in one spot instead of in the stores?
This is how potatoes are stored after harvest
@@RockyMountainFarmerdo you plant them?
That’s horrible that crop is rotting away …… what a waste . 🤷♂️
Yeah, you’re telling me we won’t get paid for anything that’s rotten
Oh man, that is a whole nother scale of problems! I know exactly what that would smell like. I keep my potatoes under the floor of my cabin and it was too hot for them and so they took off...boy oh boy, I thought a mouse family died inside a raccoon carcass. Yuk.
Yeah, this is a lot bigger scale and the smell is definitely matching the scale if you know what I mean
JCB telehandlers are versatile for various tasks.
Those would be nice
No Sprout Nip application?
We sprout nipped twice already
Can you feed them potatoes please Cell I would like you to answer that question
They could feed them to cattle.
If we sort the rot out, the rest of it will be processed, but the rotten potatoes could be sold as cattlefeed. The problem is there’s so much bad potatoes this year all over that all of the feedlots are full.
All of that rot started solely due to recent heatwave?
Yes our cellar isn’t refrigerated so they could not keep cold enough in the heat
Make moonshine😂
I’m not sure how
What products are being made out of these potatoes and which company is selling them? Lays? Kettle Chips? Vodka? Ah, I read another comment, they are being made into instant potatoes. Do you know which brand?
I’m not sure they get sold worldwide to different companies
@@RockyMountainFarmer Interesting. Thanks for the info. Thank you for helping keep all of us fed.
Are those rotten potatoes for consumption?
Yes, they get made into potato flakes that get made two things like Pringles
If you aren’t careful the processors will be very slow to buy your product. And it is their fault. You waited till now to do anything to control the temperature. Dam the processors, they bought from farmers that protected their crop.
Yum yum potato cheese
Sounds good haha
What are these used for or sold to?????
These will be made into potato flakes and don’t worry they get cleaned very well before they get made into a product
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I'm sure there are a few of us which I am one of that knows how it smells. And I thought we here in southern Alberta had the market on wind, we are becoming a forest of wind turbines, does that mean we will all have cancer soon.
Yeah, we had some wind turbines installed on the mountains next to us last year and nobody’s very excited about it
Hope those don't end up in anything I'm eating
I don’t know
What are these potatoes being used for so I don't buy it
I guess I won’t tell you then
You could make some good vodka and gin from the fermenting spuds.
Yeah probably I’m not sure how that process works
And why would you let all that harvest go to waste and not do anything about it?
What logic goes behind that process?
Why is a bag of potatoes almost 10$ now?
Is the government putting sticks in your wheel???
Seems like a crazy amount of money and food wasted...
Well, you said it.
These guys are assholes and they don't care about anything.
They will just sell them at higher prices or turn them in even more expensive product like starch and potato flake...
Well, sometimes you can’t control everything. we are getting paid the same for a sack of potatoes as we were 30 years ago so the price increases in the store aren’t because of the farmers.
Good God the smell !!!!!!! 🤮
Yeah it is nasty
how he hell did u guys even manage to go near there without waering a mask or at least a clamp over your nose is beyond me. i can hardly stand the smell of a signle rotten potato!
how many tons was that, and much did u have to discard in the end? sorry if i missed that in the vid
This was 7,000,000 pounds of potatoes and we probably lost about 1,000,000 pounds. we were able to salvage most of it
@@RockyMountainFarmer wow, thats quite a lot of fries.. nice to hear u could save the most of it!
Find a distiller that needs them for making vodka. If these have sold to a processor then it there loss sounds like a bad business plan.
Yeah, I wonder if a distiller would want them
Hang on, rotten potatoes smell like rotten potatoes?
They sure do
Perfect for mc des Wendy’s Berger king.
Right
So was this wasted and let to sit
Nope if you watch the next few videos, we cleaned it out and was able to save about 55,000 sacks we lost maybe 10,000 sacks
They won’t get any rot in the product. I doubt that seriously… anyone that wants to buy boxed potatoes should watch this video
They get washed extremely well
Um rotten potatoes have killed hundreds of family and they didn't even eat them
How
This is disgusting and they are still using it....take the loss and pitch it. No one wants rotten anything!!!!!
We have saved most of it. It would be a million dollar loss
@@RockyMountainFarmer I'm sure...that's a crap load of potatoes, but at the same time do you eat half rotten meat or anything else. This is why people get sick from food at the store. No matter how u put it...still stinking rotten potatoes. Would you feed them to your kids?
The comedy of errors continues. It's like the three stooges are running this operation
What was the error here
@@RockyMountainFarmeryou can expect some uneducated comments
Some waste
Yes there is
So who's fault is this is? it it the producer or the processor? In this video you've conveyed to your audience that it is the processing plants fault for your potatoes rotting in storage although you have no refrigeration to be able to suberize your potatoes to fight fungal infection such as fusarium dry rot or soft rot caused by pectobacteria . I think it is only fair to recognize that the processing plant is running a business (such as your are) of processing the cleanest/cheapest potatoes they can in order to make money, though when a producer like yourself comes along with a whole cellar of rotten potatoes that the processing plant needs in order to meet their volume needs based on a contract with their customer their hand is forced to buy your process-grade potatoes before they get any worse. This is a moment where you'd look introspectively and see how you can do better as a producer to better fit your customers needs instead of bashing them for the mismanagement of your crop
Well seeing how they didn’t stick to the schedule of hauling out the potatoes in order to get them all out in time yeah I would say it’s their fault. They were supposed to be taking a few loads a day from harvest until August 15 and they didn’t take any loads until about March so they could’ve been hauling loads in since harvest but decided not to therefore we had potatoes that normally don’t store this long. All of our potatoes are supposed to be hauled in by August 15 and we still have five cellars clear full roughly 500,000 sacks there’s no way they will get them all hauled in because they didn’t stick to their schedule.
And these will be processed into some sort of food product for human consumption. Ugh.
The rotten parts get sorted out.
@@RockyMountainFarmer uh-huh........
@@amossnowdaharleyman9179 Yep and I show you how in an upcoming video so make sure to keep watching
@@RockyMountainFarmer will do.
Turn it all into vodka
The infrastructure to do that here doesn’t exist
why why why u are the growers wtf
Potatoes don’t store well when it’s hot and we are not in control of when they take them out
Are you sure you like farming? You don't want to play golf like the boring people?
I can’t make money golfing
@@RockyMountainFarmer I know that's the point
@RockyMountainFarmer just made me think about something someone said at church.Because I was at church one day and someone was talking about how on their mission they were on the church Farm in Florida and then they had him go to some retirement neighborhood and he wasn't having any luck and no one wanted to talk to him and it was just a bunch of old retired people that really like to golf. He told them he wasn't having a good time and they told him well he can go home or he can go back to the farm and so he went back to the farm and he was having such a great time there anyway. I see a lot of people playing golf and I don't know why I have friends that do it and it just seems like such a waste of time
@@RockyMountainFarmer like I'm judging people who play golf LOL I just don't like golf. I don't like watching TV either. I feel like doing what you're doing and growing potatoes would be more entertaining
So why doesn’t it have air conditioning????? This obviously isn’t the first time you’ve loaded that building…… sugar beet plants have fans to keep beets cool. So with all the waste, you could afford to put in coolers ….. instead of feeding shytty taters to the public
We don’t put air conditioning on all the cellars because normally they don’t keep them this long. This is the first time this is ever happened.
Yall need some mexicans
All of our pipe movers are Mexican
coming to a McDonalds near you
Haha not really
@@RockyMountainFarmer just picked up on your channel. Pretty interesting I’m from north west Indiana nothing but corn and soybean around here and steel mills
Well, I’m glad you found it. Thanks for watching.
It would be nice if it would be closer a lot of great animal feed my livestock would rather eat potatoes then corn in it's approx 4 pounds of potatoes to equal 1 pound of corn as the starch value
Yeah, I know a lot of feedlots around here are currently feeding potatoes