While we were in Royal, the potato harvest was getting started. Now that Papa Norm is retired, he is renting out his farm. The people renting the land grew potatoes this year.
Nathan had a great time riding along learning about how potatoes are harvested.
He got to ride in the tractor with tracks too. He loved that.
One of the harvesters had a guy on the back throwing out dirt clumps, rocks, and bad potatoes.
Papa Norm and Elizabeth checked to see the quality of the potatoes.
Elizabeth found a teeny tiny potato she just loved.
When Elizabeth and I rode along, this was the face Elizabeth made when we had to sit in the field and wait for trucks. There were only 7 trucks but they definitely could have used a few more!
When there were trucks, they filled up VERY quickly. Papa Norm's field had never had potatoes before so that soil grew a TON of potatoes. In fact, his fields were the last of the season to be harvested because the potato plants did not want to die they were so happy in the soil.
We followed the trucks to the shed that they went into for storage before they were shipped off for processing. All of those potatoes came from Papa Norm's field and that wasn't even half of them. Those big metal pipes are for blowing temperature controlled air up into the potatoes so they don't rot. When there is finally room at the processing plants, these potatoes will be made into french fries, hash browns, and tater tots.
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