Spud seed circle of life

Processing seed potatoes at Mickelson Farms. Here’sAndrew Mickelson. Speaker 2: This would be your potato that you might see. You might be familiar with this at the grocery store or whatever. This is what we're calling a seed potato, but it's basically the same as any other potato you might see. But we're striving to keep it disease free and set up for growing more potatoes. What we'll do is we'll bring this into our seed cutting facility. We'll get it cleaned up, try to get it pointed in the right direction. And our end goal is to cut it. This is a seed piece after it's been through the cutter. Speaker 1: After sorting, cutting and culling all of the junk. Keaton Chase tells us about the next steps. Speaker 3: This morning we cut a variety that we sell to new Jersey. We sent some specifics over there. We've sent some to Washington. We've sent some to California. There was some that went to the Bahamas in the winter, just kind of all over whatever we can do to get spuds moving. That's the idea there. That's our end product. That's what we put together. That's what this whole system from the start of the seller all the way through into a truck. And then ultimately it goes back to a seller until it goes out back into a field. Speaker 4: We start with this and then we move on to this just to get this again, it needs to be understood. Your potato in the ground comes from this. It comes from what we just took out. It's just a circle, right? So I plant this so I can cut it to this. So then Andrew can grow that and sell it to a restaurant. Speaker 1: The spud seed circle of life.