I didn't know I needed to learn about the production of potatoes but I found it fascinating. Very labor intensive and hands on, great video, well done.
Just found your channel. Really enjoyed the content !! I also subscribed. I am a retired field mechanic and welding fabricator after 43 years, from the mountains of southwestern Virginia . You all be careful and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
Hey Eddy! Thank you for subscribing, I’m glad you enjoy my content! I am still getting the hang of this RU-vid thing. It sounds like you had a very important career! Everyone needs someone they can rely on to keep all their equipment running. Thank you for the blessing!
I'm at the other end of the food service supply chain and I'm surprised how much you have to do to be in compliance with safety standards and such as you harvest/store/deliver your products. I've never understood why potatoes are so inexpensive. Now I wonder even more. Almost every person I know would gladly pay an extra buck or 2 if there was a mechanism and we could know it went to the actual producer. I'm sorry i noticed your tators first. Double sorry to your husband who must just "LOVE" the attention you get for that....
They do excellent work! Everyone should check out their website! www.s3welding.com/ they are building a custom piece of equipment for our potato packing line. I will definitely be showing off that equipment when it comes in.
Another trick for checking fuel is to walk over to the woods and get a somewhat straight stick and us that. Just make sure you pick one that is somewhat clean, no bark flaking off.
Really have been enjoying watching your vids!! They are the perfect length Molly...(11-13 min.)'ish... is perfect! Funny that I tripped across your RU-vid channel today. My youngest daughter was born in Brunswick, ME, 32 years ago TODAY!!! She lives in Alabama now, but this sure bring back great memories of living in Maine!!! You can keep those damn biting black flies though!!! LOL
Oh that’s very cool! Wish her happy birthday from us! Black flies… well you don’t understand how bad they are u less you have experience them. I’m originally from Ohio, and we did not have them there either! Thank you very much for watching!
Hey Molly and all staff, great work so far! I love your "Spudnik hat". Another great detailed video! Hope the weather holds out for you. Never a dull moment at the farm I'm sure. Stay safe.
This is some long hours! I help my friend on occasion. No time for anything but the tractors. Then you have to repair everything for the next year. Hopefully you have some heat in your shop.👍💯🇺🇸🇺🇸
I did a lot of walking/looking at the rows when potatoes were windrowed out in wet areas to see if any rot and if there was any at all we left , because its not the rot you see its the ones that haven't broken down yet which will cause problems. You folks were wise to leave those in the field . Good job !
Absolutely love Maine potatoes molly! I think they're better than Idaho. I used to get them in the stores here in new york but hadn't been seeing them for years.☹️ but when I do, I grab them because of their quality from maine!
It usually does at least a few times, we will usually bag potatoes or catch up on other things those days, because it would be a mess if we tried to dig.
Come people share this beautiful lady,with your freinds ,she is a good lady to be following, thanks BigAl California,,, get in one of the shifter manual trucks ,so we can see you shift gears ok that would get some more subscribers, thanks
Molly how are you connected to Bells Farms ? I see a lot of girls with Farm videos on here from all over USA and Canada. Which I think is good explaining how the production of what ever that farm is producing. How do you compare to the potatoes growers in Idaho? Do you send potatoes to Walmart or any other big grocery stores? Sorry for all the questions Well thank you for your time. Your generosity of information is gladly appreciated 😊
Hey Bill, thanks for watching and being interested! I married into the Bell family. I am learning to farm with them. We are a small farm compared to the big Idaho potato farms! But we do stay very busy and love what we do. We send sweet corn to Walmart and potatoes a a larger New England grocery store distribution center called Market Basket! If you have more questions let me know!
@@BellsFarming I have heard of market basket...my grandfather worked there in SoCal. Apparently there were two different Market Basket companies here in SoCal and the one on the East Coast is a third. I had to look it up to see if it happened to be the same company that was here years ago.
It is interesting to see a potato operation. With those potatoes that yall had to pass up because of the water, is it possible to go back later to get them, or are they just considered a loss?
Will you harvest the rye, or disk it in ? I saw the guy plugging a cord into your truck after you backed up to the unloader, was that to power the trucks conveyer belt ? Thanks for the video.
Hahahah the gauge in that truck is very unreliable! I’m not sure how much 4 inches of fuel would have lasted me but I knew it need to be topped off before I started the day. Thank you for watching
Good morning 🌄 hello 👋🏾 how you doing your still working with removal of potatoes and before winter closing soon?? how you still working on your go or stop being before winter closing 💬💬🤔🤔🤔🙄
Hey there good morning! The farm has finished potato harvest, I’m a little behind on making videos because we are so busy on the farm. But harvest went really well
Hey Molly, one question I had, you said you plant winter rye after your potatoes have been harvested to help with erosion over the winter. Now, do you just plow that under in the spring or is the rye used for anything? Also do deer feed on that rye in the winter? Be safe, Dan
We just plow it under, I try to catch it before it gets to tall, makes it easier to chop up with the disc. You know, I really don’t know if they eat it. I’ll have to ask the guys if they have noticed that before. I would think they might eat it while they can get to it before the snow covers it.
Rye is a nitrogen fixing plant. Pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere and adds it to the soil via it's roots. Plowing it under puts all the nutrients back into the soil to make it more fertile. And the plants are digested by worms and zillions of micro-organisms and they deposit their waste (manure) further enriching the soil.
@@BellsFarming After I posted that I wondered if you were just share-cropping that field. We had a dry spring, wet July, dry August and so so Sept here SW of Chicago. Where is your farm?
@@BellsFarming Maine? Potatoes from Maine? Who knew? LOL. Spent my honeymoon in Maine, almost 50 yrs ago. Thx for your reply. Hope you had a great holiday.
Hey Jeff, I don’t do alot of social media at this point. Something I can try to work on. There are some dairy farms not to far from the farm. Our friend raises beef cattle, he is the closest one to us.
No problem, I’m very happy to reply to comments. I’m happy people are interested enough in the videos to leave comments. The weather has been good. I think today is going to be like 70 something! But cold front moving in soon.
