Custom potato harvesting brings self-propelled or pull-type harvesters that lift the row, separate soil, vines, clods, and rocks over chain and star tables, and load clean tubers into trucks with minimal bruising. It is the highest-capacity way to get a potato crop out of the ground in the tight window between vine kill and the first hard frost.
Gentle, well-set harvesting protects pack-out and storage life. Operators match chain speed, drops, and padding to the variety and pulp temperature to hold down bruising and skinning, and coordinate trucks so the crop moves straight to the packer, processor, or storage. Experienced crews and late-model equipment are what turn a heavy crop into graded, storable tubers.
Usually priced per acre, varying with yield, field conditions, and haul distance. Book harvesting on its own or with vine killing and hauling as one coordinated job.
