Just started watching your channel love your farm yes farming is a beautiful life sometimes you had bad days but better days out weight bad days love the potato processing 😊
That was very interesting Molly. I love to watch the different processes involved like field preparation, testing, new product, etc. etc. there is so much that goes into farming. I surely can understand why it is such a labor intensive field. Hope you and Shane had a great Independence Day celebration.
I was a seed production agronomist for a third of my working life. We would inspect fields by walking 10 m or yds of row and noting differences in plants. We would do 15 of those for every 10 hectares or 25 acres. With experiments it was necessary to sample 3 or 4 replicates of the variety. It was fascinating and engaging work, particularly when our bio magicians would analyse the numbers. Great to see food safety audits are still a thing and an interesting arrow to our bow when exports were required. Thanks for the video. The taste test never fails.
Wow those are nice healthy plants, much bigger and bushier than the ones in my garden! Nothing better than fresh baby potatoes, I love them boiled with whipping cream and fresh dill and a touch of salt. A couple more weeks and I'll have some ready to eat too. Thanks for the video!
Great video. I set up the food safety for Bauman Orchards here I Ohio the paper work is crazy to sell to Walmart plus we ha 25 full time employees and 25 seasonal. To train its a big job keeping it strait. I know what your going thru. Cheers
I went by the farm on the fourth we were going to Durham to visit some friends saw your tractor in one of the fields. Love fresh dug new potatoes that’s when they are the best. Looks like the new varieties are doing well. Hope you and Shane had a good Fourth of July.
@@realairplane261yeah he's one of those dudes that goes one of two ways old Andy, either his wife treats him like he treats all the rest of the Farmers on RU-vid she trods on him so that's how he gets his frustration out is to belittle and berating other Farmers on his channel. Or somebody needs to check and make sure how abused his wife is. Personally I think it's the latter she's probably scared to leave. The astounding part is there's 20 or 30,000 people out there that are just as bad as him cuz they enjoy his content.
At first I thought we were flying over cotton fields in the Carolinas 😅. Great seeing the variety work of different species, nice video as always, Mollie, and thanks for sharing!
You bring a wonderful mix of expertise and humor to your farming adventures, making the discovery of each potato variety a joyful journey. Your passion for agriculture shines through, inspiring others to appreciate the simple joys of farming life. And I am a floating village life from Vietnam.
Shane molly that was awesome thanks for the Ag education on spuds. wow who knew there was so much to know thank you hug hug for sharing awesome.this is better then all my college courses on growing things.
Damned potato bugs. As kids, my siblings and I would help our grandfather purge his potato patch. He'd put some used motor oil in coffee cans for us, to kill the bugs, and we'd walk along the rows having a contest to see who picked off the most bugs. About 3 or 4 times over the course of 10 days or so seemed to do the trick for the rest of the summer. Loved the drone shots, and, interesting to see your very studied approach to assessing your crops in the early stages of growth. Great episode, as usual Bells Farms! Cheers.
your farm is great... here, in west tx, it is `dryland farming` ( cotton, sometimes wheat)cotton planting is may 20-june 20 the little cotton plants- i am told, just need one or so rains to mature and make cotton bolls.. ( i`m a retired foreign car mechanic, not a farmer, but i`m listening and taking notes...) thanks for your excellent videos
Hey Molly, love your videos. I know what you are going through with the food safety. I use to work for a company that made plastic bags. Some of the bags were made to hold food. So we had to go through an inspection every year. We were constantly doing something that was required to keep the equipment clean.
Nice to see that you also grow potatoes from Meijer varieties. I also grow varieties for Meijer. Soprano, Melody, Musica, Lady Anna, Lady Forte, Lady Rosetta, Orchestra, Lady Claire, Lady Jane, among others. Lady Rosetta, Lady Olympia. I think Musica, Melody and Orchestra are nice varieties for you.
Good morning Molly! Thanks for the video to enjoy with my first cup of coffee! All that paper work looks hard and boring but I know it's a,very important part of your farm. I would love to try your sweet corn and potatoes but I live in Indiana so I don't think that will happen. Thank again and take care. Larry
Soon , you will be top notch teaching all about potatoes and ways to grow them , right, thanks BigAl California.praise Jesus Christ grace amen 🙏 Molly , good job.
Molly every year with the first little potatoes and carrots my mom would boil them and make a white sauce to put them in. So good. I can taste them now.
Interesting to get to know additional things that go on "behind the scenes". As a non-farmer I had no idea about what the food safety regulations entail, thanks for sharing.
What I'm getting most often in my local store is a variety they call "Yukon Gold", and they're great baked. I only season them with garlic butter, and they have a bit of a sweet flavor.
Hi Molly, I worked on the retail side of produce my entire working life so I know all about the food safety regulations. And yes you do have to stay on top of that stuff. I would be interested in your opinion on each of those new varieties ( taste, texture, etc.) thanks for sharing this video and all of the very interesting knowledge you and Shane provided us.
Very interesting video, I'm always interested in the research end of farming but no experience with potato's. As a consumer, I love potatoes but for some reason I only like white potatoes. Really hate the newer varieties of golds and yellows for some reason. Thanks Molly & good luck with your paperwork! 👍 You always have educational as well as entertaining content.
I worked in a hospital and you have WHMIS as well as a ton of Government Policies and Procedures to deal with. Every 4 years we had to be re-accredited and that was a MAJOR operation so I get what doing paperwork is all about. Nice to see the drone footage and keep up the great work.
Neat to see the differences I'm varieties. Have you and Shane ever grown or anyone in state ever grown "Purple Viking" ? Back in Virginia few farmers grew them and they grow more chef size there. But not as many per plant. Not sure on storage lifetime. Just curious. Keep up the great job Enjoy y'all's day !
I like to make potatoes and oinions with potatoes. Dice up the potatoes and dice up a yellow onion and fry them together in a frying pan with a little butter or olive oil. I know about food safety. I worked at a McDonald's back in the 90s and we had food safety procedures to follow and when I became a shift manager there I had to take a one day course on food safety and then take Servsafe food safety test at the end of the day to become food safety certfied because the shift managers were required to be food safety certified for that managment position.
Molly! A couple questions. First how do you protect the plants from those beetles? Secondly, how often, if any, does the food safety requirements change? The plants are looking great!
Hey there, Dave will spray an insecticide to control the beetles. There no other way to control them. The food safety requirements do not change that often, maybe every 5 years they will tweak something a little
This video was very interesting and informative your potatoes crop good instead that of Rocky mountain farmers and I notice that nodoby grow red variety of potatoes and by which company in Netherland you have agreement or choose seed because there are many hybrid potato company these varieties which you grow organic
I am really curious what you did before getting married and becoming a spudtress. You sound very educated and detail oriented...just me being a curious boy!
😁Witch tater makes the best FRIES ? Chips ? Baked ? I like a smooth buttery texture for baked taters. Tater bug spraying with a hover drone ? Great video . thanks
I need that Funks Hybrid sign in your office!!! I’m sure it was mentioned and I missed it but how do you measure yield with potatoes? By weight or bushels? And what is considered a good yield? Thanks for sharing
Excellent video! How long in the ground where the trial potatoes he pulled up? It looked like good number of potatoes on the vines but how many will achieve size? Why are you trying Netherlands potatoes when Maine grows the best in the world already ? Kennebec is all I even plant anymore , everyone loves them. Katahdin are a close second .
Those were planted early may I believe. Essentially we are trying to find a good yellow variety since we’ve had such poor luck with satinas past few years, so we’re trying to a bunch of new ones this year
Hi new to your channel. When you first plant your potatoes how do you control your weeds Here in Japan they use black plastic and the potatoes come up though the plastic
Interesting. I'm looking forward to the beans and sweetcorn. Did you have a look at the link I messaged you about the Vredenburg (South Africa) potato farm?
Since we're the last stop in Northern CA, our Walmart is a joke for produce! It's awful! Our only choice is Safeway. There's no other stores until we go North 20 miles to Oregon.
What state u in, have u heard about government in Oregon and Idaho about farmers losing there farms and water Idaho 500,000 acres cause of no water now.most potatoes farmers.
What do you think of the new State of Maine Safety Food Act? In my own opinion: Maine Food Safety Act makes the Federal Food Safety Acts seem reasonable in comparison between them.
