Potato Equipment

With snow starting to blanket potato fields and Christmas just around the corner, farmers – and harvesters too – are ready for a well-earned...

Tacked to the wall behind my desk, I’ve got a “Citizen of the Century” article clipped out of Scottsville, Nebraska’s Star-Herald newspaper from more...

As you roll your way through your fields this fall, will your harvester be your very best and most reliable friend, or your most...

As farms consolidate, the labour market tightens, and agricultural margins shrink, potato growers today need to get more done faster, with fewer hands and...

No matter how high-tech potato harvesters and windrowers become, they’ll always depend on one seemingly low-tech component — the digging blade. But, don’t make...

Considering a new or new-to-you potato planter?Here’s the pros and cons for the most common styles available today:Pick PlantersThe oldest form of potato planting...

Functional, well-maintained equipment can make the difference between farming success and enormously costly misses, breakdowns and losses. In the more than 35 years I’ve...

As farmers know better than most, necessity really is the mother of invention. For years, farmers have jimmy-rigged and retrofitted mobility onto non-mobile potato...

Ask any potato producer where rocks belong and they’ll vehemently tell you: “Not in my field.” While that’s true, they also don’t belong in...

It’s been a tough harvest for many North American potato farmers. In my neck of the woods (northern North Dakota), August’s drought turned into...