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Philip d

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Here?s filling the planter at our field behind our home ,we run the motors with the welder generator on the service truck
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These belts and cups pick up the sets,there?s shakers they added this year to help reduce skips
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Fully loaded with sets and fertilizer,they can plant around 60 ac/day in good conditions with 1 planter
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Thanks for the pic. I would like to see more as I have never been around potatoes other than a acre or so in a garden & those were all planted & harvested by hand. How large of fields??? Are they sold right out of the field after harvest or are they stored & sold later??? How many tons will a acre yield???
 
They store them,get about a million pounds from 35 acres. Some fields are only a few acres most are over 20 and some are as many as 80 acres. Not big fields here,40 acres is a nice field in this area.
 
Those shakers are loud when the seed is getting low,I use a Stanley radio ear protection head set comes in real handy
 
I spent 3 weeks hauling seed potatoes from Nebraska to either Idaho or Oregon. 1 farm we pulled their belt trailers. The other farm we hauled them in our hopper trailers.
I was told Nebraska supplies more seed potatoes then any other state.
 
Nice equipment and great pictures.
A couple of questions:
1. How deep is the seed planted (2,3 or 4 inches)?
2. Will you hill those rows, when and how often?
3. Are there any organic growers on PEI?

I was talking to a fellow who was trying to grow organic potatoes near Alliston Ontario, which is a big potato growing area but all the big growers use sprays. His biggest problems were spray drift and deer. The deer would pass over the sprayed potato fields and come to his organic fields and paw out the potatoes and have a good chow down. He approached the Ministry for extra deer tags so he could keep the deer population down but they wouldn't believe him, so he invited some ministry officials over for a chat on his deck. They all witnessed the deer jumping fences and pawing out his organic potatoes. As a result he did get his extra deer tags.
 
My how things progress. I remember my dad, pulling a two row planter with a Farmall H, filling it with 80 lb. bags of seed spuds, and bags of fertilizer, a crew of two on the planter making sure it was dropping seed properly.
 
These hill the rows as they plant,somewhat new concept but
is working well in our region. The set inside the hilled row is
about 6? deep. Not many organic growers here on a large
scale
 
Thanks for posting...........haven't made it to PEI yet and probably never will. The area always interested me.

Jim B
 
Had lots experience planting taters in my youth . Spent many hors riding the back of a tater planter keeping and eye on how the seed taters went down and poking with aa stick to keep them flowing and poking the fertilizer hoppers on a two row . Spent many long days hilling and cultivating acres and acres on a Oliver O C 3 crawler with ft . mount cultivator hiller with hand lift . It was all i could do to lift one side at a time stopping to lift at the end of the field and make the turn get lined up and let one side down at a time. The hot days of moving and setting up irrigation pipe then once in place and pumping running around and unpluging the nozzles while it was in operation , was great on hot days.
 
Potatoes destined to be used as seed must past field
inspection here by the CFIA or Canadian Food Inspection
Agency to be destined as seed. Some farms grow their own
seed but must have other markets in mind for the ones that
won?t pass as seed. Other farms grow seed for other farms
but also need processing and or table markets to use up the
non classified seed.
 
I remember riding on the back of a John Deere pick planter with a shovel handle to knock any seed off the picks that didn?t fall off or any seed down the tube that got stuck and I loved every minute of it
 
I rode a long ways on the back of a IronAge one row planter. The old man drove and the seed would come down a shoot onto a flat plate with holes in it and I would have a stick to poke the seed that got stuck. It was fun until we had to dig them with a one row wheel driven digger. Then the picking the potatoes up by hand then throw the tadder crates up on the wagon. It was a lot of work but I guess it didn't hurt us. . Old Scovy.
 
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