Nutter Farm
Nutter Farm
After hand digging the potato crop for a few years, it was obvious that a more efficient method was warranted. After researching all of the small farm potato harvesters available around the globe, we settled on the I&J potato plow because of cost and simplicity. This plow cost 300 new and the other harvesters ranged from 2800-3500. The plow is not perfect but it works. It took my wife and I about an hour to collect 100#s of potatoes or about 5 times faster than hand digging. The tines of the plow are visible in the bottom of the picture. The crop is Dark Red Norlands and the yield was poor at 9#s per pound of seed. We would prefer 15#s per pound but we have not had adequate rain.
Monday, August 1, 2011
New I&J Potato Plow a winner