Good morning and happy Thursday! We dusted off our harvesting equipment and got to work digging our new crop potatoes early this beautiful summer morning. These early, round white potatoes are always a huge hit with our customers at both our farm stand and our restaurants. Come and get them while you can! You can visit “#harvest25” to watch a video of our harvest equipment.
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Join me as I hop into Curtis’ tractor for a trip to our local fertilizer plant. Curtis makes this trip many times every day when we’re planting our crops. Fertilizer is one of our most important crop inputs playing a vital role in boosting our crop yields. You can visit “Tractor Joy Riding” to see a video of what happened when I tagged along with John in the potato planter.
 How many tractors do you see in this photo? John is planting our russet potatoes in this field, and his tractor is clearly visible in the bottom of the photo. If you look very hard, you’ll see a second tractor in the top left corner. RJ is using the cultivator to work in the fertilizer Curtis spread earlier that day. Coordination and communication are key as our tractors tag team in the field to get the crops planted. You can visit the Farming Equipment category in my Common-Tater blog section to see many more photos and videos of our tractors in action.
Here’s a quick peek at what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks. It’s been all about getting our crops in the ground while the weather holds. This is our potato planter going all out on a beautiful spring day. You can visit “Long Weekend Plans” to see another video of our planting equipment.
Come along with me for a behind the scenes video depicting the saga of our seed potatoes! You’ll see the seed potatoes from the moment they start to arrive in tractor trailer until they are cut and ready to go to the field. You can visit “Little Seed Potatoes” to learn more about the purpose of our seed potato cutting line.
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