Potato Farming in Ireland ** Documentary by Videos of Irish Farming Life

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3 жыл бұрын

This film follows the fortunes of several potato growers throughout Ireland and also gives a short history of the potato, a crop synonymous with Ireland. We look at the importance of potato growing here in Ireland, showing how the humble spud stills plays a vital role here to this day.
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@bwghall1 3 жыл бұрын

spud picking in the 1940s. and diving between rows when a plane came over just in case it was the Germans. all the women shouting dive for cover, us kids loved it.

@patrickcodd7010 3 жыл бұрын

As an Irish man living in Australia i find your videosios so very interesting. God bless your work and. God speed the plough.

@peteacher52 2 жыл бұрын

Helps to make sense of the relentless slog that was growing potatoes manually, fishing from currachs and maintaining a modicum of comfort that was life on the isolated Blasket Islands before 1920.

@user-qn9fj9vd8q 7 ай бұрын

Lord God, please help not to take the land from ordinary farmers of Ireland, their children cry, they handed out a lot of food to charity, treating everyone, look at their dark faces from the sun and strained hands. Thank you very match.

@russellrlf 3 жыл бұрын

I love these videos. It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for commenting!

@jeksixten5751 Жыл бұрын

I have Incan descent this is Amazing to see how important potatoes to other countries...

@parlainthtownie85 3 жыл бұрын

This made me so hungry. I had potatoes for lunch and now after watching this I want potatoes again.

@robertstewart3638 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks that was very interesting to see how it’s changed from when I grew potatoes in the 70s

@Meanfidler 2 жыл бұрын

Very good video, thank you.

@gburahbondo2948 2 жыл бұрын

I love Ireland

@paulbeech7276 3 жыл бұрын

Love it...Picked spuds by hand in the early 80s November time....must of been 14.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul, Glad you enjoy it. We have a video specifically on gathering spuds coming up in a few weeks.

@SurprisedAlbatross-op4ik 4 ай бұрын

Very very good and interested in it all very good

@Daytona2 3 жыл бұрын

Good to see, thank you.

@duncanosborne4871 3 жыл бұрын

My dad worked on a farm in the uk they grew peas and potatoes, i can remember seeing the crowds of women arriving in the mornings picked up by the farm in the land rovers too pick the peas or potatoes i have done that as well. Its ashame that nowadays the old ways have given way to mechanisation, as with so many people being made redundant due to the pandemic it would of given loads of work too locals

@eilissmith8591 3 жыл бұрын

Great story, makes me want to pop up to the glens of Antrim, then over to the causeway coast.

@stephenross1581 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative and interesting video, thanks for posting, Stephen

@liveweathermike8714 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video on Irish potato farming keep up great work with these informational films

@ChefEarthenware 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy these videos, thanks.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers for dropping us a comment Chef

@blameusa7082 3 жыл бұрын

i love these videos.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying them, thanks for commenting

@listairgin 2 жыл бұрын

Great informative video, thank you. 👌

@shinawillmn 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative.

@ronaldlucas5360 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed

@arthura.applegatejr.7145 Жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why JD is the most prominent when James Oliver had a plow works 10 years before Deere‼️

@charlesyoungblood1402 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding Video and very educational .

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@stuartf2946 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video and continue to catch up with the rest. The farmers do work so hard, even with mechanisation it is still a very long day for them. I am an avid potato fan and thank the lovely Irish for producing such great quality potatoes.

@dougcarroll9623 3 жыл бұрын

I remember picking spuds in quarter tonn boxes got 7 pound per box boy was that hard work I could only manage 2 in a 12 hour day

@gregorymalchuk272 2 жыл бұрын

What year was this? I want to run the inflation calculator on it.

@dougcarroll9623 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymalchuk272 1982

@donalfinn4205 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting I must say. I love potatoes and it’s great to see these agricultural videos.👍☘️

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Donal

@alanmitchell7322 10 ай бұрын

very interesting vidio

@redeye9140 3 жыл бұрын

Good ole Irish potatoes, good for the body, good for the soul.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Thanks for commenting

@rebelcounty2078 3 жыл бұрын

Great Videos. Very Interesting. 👍

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rebelcounty2078 3 жыл бұрын

@@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Have you any sugar beet videos, that would be nice to see.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

@@rebelcounty2078 None on Sugar beet.. Do you farm it?

@Cypher791 3 жыл бұрын

Chip Inspector... i was born for this job =D

@markward6076 10 ай бұрын

During the great potato 🥔 blite. Ireland grew more than one food crop that should have saved them from starvation.

@patricksheridan7899 8 ай бұрын

They forgot to tell everyone that the crown took the rest of the food.

@rudrakshpainuly1294 2 жыл бұрын

Atleast Ireland still have their potatoes even after the worse potato famine cuz of the Brits.

@debbiegamon1232 2 жыл бұрын

Why is life changing so dramatically. In three years no potatoes grown here?

@RayNomadic Жыл бұрын

Interesting I subbed.

@MichaelTaylor-fk7mn 3 жыл бұрын

Like it

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael

@davidedwards3465 3 жыл бұрын

Great voice, so clear .

@jeksixten5751 Жыл бұрын

Same thaime"

@diamantschwarzmet 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting see the stones used as a drainage. In Germany they are carried away and not used for anything.

@jasvindrasidhubrar3829 2 жыл бұрын

Very very informative and intresting video! 🇮🇳

@lenscap8925 3 жыл бұрын

Was the prognostication of the end of potato growing in that area correct? If so, what is the crop now, or are there houses on the land?

@thomasstrong6632 3 жыл бұрын

The gobshite (farming expect) was as most experts tend to be, very wrong.

@swrtsolutionsinc.1092 3 жыл бұрын

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@sddfksdfsjs 3 жыл бұрын

The homie Lne

@abeonthehill166 2 жыл бұрын

But can you solve this in less than ten minutes .....? A miller ground out 336 pound of wheat into flour . Enough to fill 128 bags ; some were 2 (Ib) and others were 7 (Ib) bags of Flour. How many 2 (Ib) bags and 7 (Ib) bags of Flour were filled ? If a 2 (Ib) bag is sold for £2 each and a 7 (Ib) is £6 each; how much were all 128 bags sold for ? If only 25% of the total selling price of the Flour was profit ( after expenses ), how much profit did the Miller have for the 336 (Ib) of Flour sold that day ? Regards.......Abe

@greggroome2791 9 ай бұрын

🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏👌👌👍👍

@brucemiller8109 2 жыл бұрын

This film must have been done in the 1990's because the cost of a JD or Ford 135 Horsepower Tractor is 145,00.00USD. Every thing keeps going up.

@tdolan500 9 ай бұрын

From the plates on the vehicles its definitely after 2002. Maybe around 2004.

@kirkbrandt8143 3 жыл бұрын

an gorta mor sorois sorai de anam 🙏

@cs-rj8ru Жыл бұрын

You're not gettin me chips!

@Improveng1 Жыл бұрын

Great video and great commentary. It's a big thumbs-up and a sub from me.

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@joshjerrome8227 3 жыл бұрын

Did the potatoes survive and were they kept farming in the north ?

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Josh, Yeah we're still farming potatoes in the North.. Thanks for the comment

@bsanders7061 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Way too many ads.

@tonymurray814 Жыл бұрын

I got premium on utube. No adds at all for $10 a month. Best money I ever spent!

@MrjackieG 11 ай бұрын

I thought the potato famine was caused by the British army seizing the potatos and stealing them

@nonyadamnbusiness9887 3 жыл бұрын

Stayed 5 minutes, left in the second advert break.

@Daytona2 3 жыл бұрын

No adverts anywhere with Adblock Plus :)

@geraldneary1948 2 жыл бұрын

Boring

@jimfix9846 3 жыл бұрын

Tatos tatos growing tatos

@johnperry5102 9 ай бұрын

why did you have a fammin, didn't you grow other crops besides potatoes, didn't you have cattle, sheep, goats, chickens

@patricksheridan7899 8 ай бұрын

The english crown took the rest of the food for themselves, history convienently left that out

@ikyist 7 ай бұрын

Haha no way I'm from Ballymena

@splishsplash9036 3 жыл бұрын

tò many advert breaks to keep my interest on the film so switched off after 20 minutes

@VideosofIrishFarmingLife 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@kipstrange1973 3 жыл бұрын

Use Firefox with adblocker and you will be fine.

@amn2760 Жыл бұрын

POV: It's year 1845

@christopherdavies752 3 жыл бұрын

U make potatoe growers look bad

@glenvillesmall8684 3 жыл бұрын

To many adds, greedy channel.

@Aut0five 3 жыл бұрын

its a pity that irish potatoes tasty so nasty. Must be the peat soil.

@Timberdoodle197 2 жыл бұрын

Your arse sir

@geraldneary1948 2 жыл бұрын

He's probably gay or something.

@davidnyc487 Жыл бұрын

You obviously never had Irish potatoes, because they are the best.

@vinnitca1990 9 ай бұрын

Хорошо что я увидел это видео ! это эще одна страна которую я не хотел бы посетить.

@tonymurray814 8 ай бұрын

Why?