I dug up potatoes, I rode in a John Deere tractor. I tasted a potato chip made from a batch of potatoes that would later that day become a Classic Lay’s Potato Chip to be shipped to a store for happy snackers to munch on the very next day.
The only thing I didn’t do on my trip to Black Gold Farms was leave a high school sweetheart broken hearted enough to write a good old country song about me. Maybe next time around.
Being a girl from Utah, you’d think that at some point during my years I’d have crossed the state line to Idaho to partake of potato digging there. I must admit, as my neighboring state, I’ve always thought potatoes were farmed pretty much exclusively in I-da-hoe.
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I discovered this truth when I was getting dirty in Missouri with a group of other friendly food bloggers, in the potato fields worked by the 4th generation, family-owned and operated Black Gold Farms.
Founded 85 years ago by Hallie Halverson and now run by his children and their children, Black Gold Farms is the largest supplier of potatoes to the largest potato chip company in the U.S., Lay’s Potato Chips.
Black Gold Farms also provide table-stock potatoes, the kind you see at the grocery store, the beautiful little red potatoes that are so amazing roasted or boiled and coated in butter.
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While I often think of fall as the height of potato season, I learned this summer that July is actually one of the high points for potato farmers. Hellllo! Who doesn’t want all-American potato chips at their summer barbeque and definitely on the 4th of July?
Because the Halverson Family has Black Gold Farms locations in eleven states, their potato harvest runs from April to September with the bulk of their farming taking root in the Red River valley of North Dakota, know for some of the best soil in the world that just happens to be black in color, very rich and fertile and perfect for potatoes.
But this food blogger trip took us to the midwest, via a plane ride and then a car ride through three states where we arrived at the Arbyrd, Missouri farm where John Halverson and his sister Leah gave us a no-holds barred tour of their family’s fields and facilities.
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Thanks to my days as a Hostess Twinkie packer (during two college summer tours of duty) I’m always fascinated with production facilities, and Black Gold Farms showed off some crazy cool potato tech.
1. Achieving true Farm Cred and testing freshly fried potato chips make food bloggers smile, as witnessed by Sandy of Reluctant Entertainer, me, Sommer of A Spicy Perspective and Ali from Gimme Some Oven.
2. Black Gold Farms harvests more than 500 billion pounds of potatoes each year with their biggest customer being Lay’s Potato Chips. Black Golds Farms is the reason you can’t eat just one.
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4. Potatoes take 100-110 days to mature. Once they’ve reached their prime, the green plants are “killed off” and the potatoes mature in the ground until harvested, about 14-20 days later while their soft skins set, making them stronger for shipping and a better shelf life.
6. Potatoes have heart. Pass them along. That’s because for the amount of effort and water it takes to produce a potato, according to John Halverson it is the most efficient calorie food in the world.
8. Even John Deere tractors with huge tires get stuck in sandy potato harvested soil. Something to make me feel better next time I’m in a snowbank.
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9. The Halverson family and Black Gold Farms partner with FFA and 4-H programs to teach kids how to plant and harvest their own gardens then providing produce to the local food banks in each farm’s community.
10. While potatoes are part of “the dirty dozen” in regards to pesticides, fewer pesticides are used today than 20 years ago and Black Gold Farms potatoes are GMO free.
11. Deere Tractors have big tires, dwarfing Meghan, Cathy of Noble Pig, Ali of Gimme Some Oven, Angie of Big Bears Wife, Sommer of A Spicy Perspective, Sandy of Reluctant Entertainer, me and our great driver Jose.
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13. Black Gold Farms uses variable rate application fertilizers so they can pinpoint which plants need it most so run-off is at a minimum.
14. The Halverson family rents most of the land it farms on from land partners. In fact JT Moody is a 78-year-old land partner who still farms 7, 000 acres of his own land and leases Black Gold Farms just 1, 400 acres. The soil must run through his veins keeping him young.
15. Potatoes can be stored for up to 10 months. Hey, just like old-school farmers used to do, but not in cellars.
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16. The Halversons take pride in how they’ve created a community within their company. These gals were the cutest and let me take 432 photos of them without losing a smile.
17. It takes 10 minutes to fill a semi trailer with 45, 000 pounds of potatoes. Back them up to my front door please.
18. The Halverson family realized that growing Black Gold Farms potatoes closer to market and their largest buyers eliminated “food miles” or the need to haul products from, say, North Dakota, all the way to potato chip factories in the Midwest. Nice work on your carbon footprint BGF.
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20. Black Gold Farms created a packaging partnership with McCormick Spices knowing most consumers wouldn’t know who Black Gold Farms is. But, the idea of pushing the needle to motivate consumers to eat more red potatoes is their mission as a whole because eating more reds makes for a healthy industry, and world overall. See #7 above.
21. Farmers have a really, really hard job. Physical, technical, scientific and all at the whim of mother nature. That’s why God Made a (Potato) Farmer.
It’s not surprising that being surrounded by potatoes in a field got me to thinking about recipes and one of my favorite ways to eat potatoes: on pizza.
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Some may think potatoes as a pizza topping may be a tad unconventional, but in true Italian form it’s actually really popular.
While we were at the farm, Leah shared a new product Black Gold Farms had created and partnered with McCormick Seasonings for a one stop shop to rustle up some potatoes.
Red potatoes sliced thin on homemade pizza dough and topped with Italian sausage and rosemary. Don’t forget the melty Fontina cheese. Perfect for the pizza-cheese-tug-o-war of who gets the last piece.
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I like to make individual pizzas, more on the rustic side since I’m hardly an Italian pizza thrower and could possibly never created a round pizza disc to save my life.
Thank goodness for “rustic” coming into foodie fashion. It’s just a synonym for messy. But I own it like I made it.
What an amazing trip and wonderful hospitality by the Halverson family. This video is a behind the scenes snapshot of our trip, thanks again to Black Gold Farms for hosting us.“Did you make the crust yourself?” my husband asks me after he’s had a slice of this sausage and potato pizza. While normally I would have to admit otherwise, I smiled and nodded that yes, in fact, I did make this myself. Aren’t you proud? “It’s a really, really good pizza, ” he says and proceeds to say something along those lines another two times (as he goes back to the kitchen for more) throughout the course of the evening.
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I know that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach and all that jazz, but when it comes to my work creating recipes in my kitchen, my husband is very honest with me. He knows that I only want to bring recipes to my site that WORK and work well, so he will tell me his opinions on flavor and texture. It’s this feedback that I appreciate so much, especially when it’s of the overwhelmingly positive variety because who doesn’t love patting themselves on the back a little, right?
If anyone is looking for inspo when it comes to easy meals for weeknights or date nights or kids’ sleepovers or girls’ night at homeor couples game night or just “I feel like eating pizza” night (confession: this is an incredibly frequent occurrence), then this recipe has you covered, and I’ll tell you why.
Quite simply, it’s because nobody — and I repeat, nobody — wants to be in the kitchen preparing a meal when they could be relaxing and having some fun with friends or family. Except for those special occasions, you want something that’s done fast, is easy, and that has a flavor that wows. And if you think homemade pizza, including the dough, is beyond your abilities, think twice!
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First, it all starts with a good yeast. I used Fleischmann’s® RapidRise® Yeast because unless you’re a seasoned baker, there is no need to use the active yeast option, ya know? Fleischmann’s® RapidRise® Yeast only has a rise time of 10 minutes after you’ve spent fourminutes kneading (which is part of the fun!) and one minute stirring. Then you bake for 12-15
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