Really cool to see how large amounts of spuds are stored, transferred and transported. Definitely one of my top 3 veggies.

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.

OH I can smell it! Too many memories of rotten spuds!

Glad that you were able to same the majority, what a shame for that many to starting to rot.

Can't smell that bad. I don't see juice running out the doors! 😂👍

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...

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

keep up dateing us i love it shows what a farmer has to put up with

I enjoy seeing your grandpa on his 4 wheeler. Both grandpas past before I was born.

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 .

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...

Great Video! cant imagine the smell of those potato's!

Yes that was very interesting I hope we can see more of this

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

OH MAN, nothing smells worse than a rotten cellar. I can smell it now, you never forget it.

Nice to watch this video and make video about potatoes which you sow

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Since covid, 5 or 10 pound bags of potatoes i buy from local stores often have several rotting potatoes.

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

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

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

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.😮😮😮

Someone should be held accountable, big investment

It’d be interesting to see that operation at the plant

Sorry about that.

Thats a lot of potatos 🥔

We got a gunny sack of potatoes from you last year and we would like to purchase some more from you.

Would be cool to see a video of that water jet cleaning all the potatoes.

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Good luck getting things cooled off. Are spuds prone to ethylene ripening each other?

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.

What is the date of this happening? And how many more cellars do you have to get cleaned out?

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.

So the company that you have contracted with, they don’t take those potatoes. Do you wind up eating the cost?

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?

Why is there so many potatoes in one spot instead of in the stores?

Usually just eat the potatoes right that's like your Root cellar basically that's not working properly

What are you guys do to clean it out after that do you do anything to clean out the rot and nasty

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.

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

@8:15 😮 thats gonna take months to load up them potatoes. There has to be a better way.

This is quite sad. Are you taking the loss on any of this or has the processor paid you for the full harvest?

Yum yum potato cheese

Wow thats crazy thats a shit load.

Can you tell me what company bought these potatoes so I can avoid them for a few months

There aren’t too many things that stink as bad as rotten potatoes

My question is, what is the product being produced with these potatoes? Vodka, maybe?

JCB telehandlers are versatile for various tasks.

What are these used for or sold to?????

Hate to say it but that was a bit late. I could not sell those anywhere.

Can you feed them potatoes please Cell I would like you to answer that question

Who failed at maintaining the cellar for them to get that bad what are they making out of them

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.

Make moonshine😂

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?

All of that rot started solely due to recent heatwave?

No Sprout Nip application?

Don't miss that ammonia stink! Will never forget that smell

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.

Are those rotten potatoes for consumption?

Tiny inadequate tools What a fiasco A huge waste Greed manifested

Hope those don't end up in anything I'm eating

You could make some good vodka and gin from the fermenting spuds.

Rotting potatoes are the worst.

Perfect for mc des Wendy’s Berger king.

What are these potatoes being used for so I don't buy it

That’s horrible that crop is rotting away …… what a waste . 🤷‍♂️

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.

Um rotten potatoes have killed hundreds of family and they didn't even eat them

The comedy of errors continues. It's like the three stooges are running this operation

Good God the smell !!!!!!! 🤮

Turn it all into vodka

They won’t get any rot in the product. I doubt that seriously… anyone that wants to buy boxed potatoes should watch this video

why why why u are the growers wtf

Some waste

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 is disgusting and they are still using it....take the loss and pitch it. No one wants rotten anything!!!!!

And these will be processed into some sort of food product for human consumption. Ugh.

coming to a McDonalds near you

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

Are you sure you like farming? You don't want to play golf like the boring people?

Yall need some mexicans

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

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