00:00 - Hello

00:01 - my name's Nathan Tallman ceo of Pennsylvania cooperative potato growers

00:05 - and we're here at the opening day of farm show we're just

00:08 - working some kinks out of the new machine that we have here

00:12 - out in main hall where next to the butter sculpture now

00:15 - making

00:16 - our famous farm show potato donuts here the main hall

00:21 - we have it close for

00:22 - the visitors to see we have a little viewing window here

00:26 - people can check it out

00:28 - and one of the reasons are donuts are so great and so

00:30 - popular here farm show is we make them fresh every day

00:34 - no preservatives there's no preservatives in this doughnut

00:37 - what a lot of people don't realize is donuts

00:39 - that you buy at the store often frozen and thawed

00:42 - so these are made fresh every day

00:45 - that we sell out every night we start every morning at about four am.

00:50 - We have seventy two people helping us at the

00:54 - Potato growers booths.

00:56 - The water is eighty degrees it's a vanilla cake doughnut mix

01:01 - we have a dried potato component that we keep a

01:03 - secret that's what makes them so good we don't want

01:06 - anyone to know our secret ingredient

01:10 - and this helps.

01:12 - Our day to day myself and Jeremy that's here helping me.

01:17 - Our day to day is selling potatoes for

01:20 - the potato growers of Pennsylvania we supply potatoes

01:24 - to the snack food manufacturers of Pennsylvania

01:28 - Pennsylvania is the snack food capital of the world

01:31 - we sell to

01:32 - Utz, Herrs, Middleswarth, Martin's

01:35 - Snyder's of Berlin and Wise

01:38 - Potato chips in berwick that's w-i-s-e not to be confused with weis markets

01:44 - so our growers in Pennsylvania supply them with chip potatoes

01:48 - and

01:49 - this helps our organization run pays our office staff

01:54 - the co-op is one of the

01:56 - oldest cooperatives in america we were chartered in 1922

02:00 - so we are now one hundred and four years old almost as old as the farm show

02:05 - and i always like to tell people the potato

02:07 - growers were one of the original potato items

02:10 - here at farm show

02:12 - we used to bake

02:13 - baked potatoes in the basement

02:16 - of the PA department of agriculture building they would haul them out to

02:20 - Cameron street and sell them out of coolers for five cents a piece

02:24 - to the crowds coming in here to farm show when it was just

02:28 - main hall which is where we are now the

02:30 - the original main hall.

02:34 - And.

02:36 - This is a palm oil that we keep at

02:39 - 375 degrees.

02:49 - there's twenty three growers in our potato co-operative.

02:53 - We not only sell potatoes from growers in Pennsylvania but we also sell potatoes

02:58 - from growers in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia,

03:03 - Maryland

03:04 - and

03:05 - Michigan.

03:06 - So

03:07 - be sure to see us here next to the butter sculpture

03:09 - and get a fresh warm potato donut. Happy Farm Show.