Synopsis
Gives procedures and suggestions for activities involved with the planting, harvesting, and handling of potatoes, including seedbed preparation, fertilization, planting, irrigation, cultivation, crop dusting and spraying, harvesting, storage, washing and grading, packing, and shipping. Covers the selection, planting, evaluation, and cutting of quality, disease-free potato seed and shows examples of diseased plants with mosaic, ring rot, leafroll, spindle tuber, and other viruses. Emphasizes careful handling of potatoes at every step, and illustrates with animated graphics the "scientific" method of loading used in Union Pacific Railroad cars. Also introduces the variety of machinery used to plant and harvest potatoes.
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Details
- Running time
- 31 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Mo Naked Hos · Spuzz · 2018-07-06
A neverending (especially in the first 3/4) look about how potatoes are grown, harvested and then put to market. God, the first 1/2 is brutal, as we show EVERY SINGLE way you can plant the little buggers, and every machine that can do it! The process is somewhat repeated during the harvest portion as well. Luckily, it speeds up as they're processed to go to market. But yeah, for spud addicts only.