Christy Paplow
Paplow Harvesting & Trucking
Fall / Wheat Harvest Correspondent
Christy joined Paplow Harvesting & Trucking in 2010 while dating her now-husband, Paul Paplow. Eleven years later, Christy and Paul are married with one daughter, Zoey, and work side by side with Paul’s father, Gary, and mother, Rhonda, in their 30-year-old harvest business.
Kimberly Neumiller
Neumiller Harvesting
Fall Harvest Correspondent
My name is Kimberly Neumiller from Neumiller Harvesting. I grew up in the small town of Fessenden, North Dakota, which is 25 miles from where I live now. My husband, Mychal, and I along with our two kids, Bentley and Payzlee, live near Bowdon, North Dakota.
Brian Jones
Jones Harvesting
Wheat Harvest Correspondent
For over 40 years, Jones Harvesting, based near Greenfield, Iowa, has made an annual trek from Oklahoma to North Dakota, harvesting golden fields of wheat for farmers who have become like family to the Jones family.
Stephanie Cronje
Osowski Ag Service
Wheat Harvest Correspondent
My name is Stephanie Cronje, a third-generation farmer residing in the rural community of Grafton, North Dakota, where my parents and brother also reside. You could say I’m the vet of the All Aboard Wheat Harvest program. I was given the privilege to write full-time for six summers in a row, back when my family would do the harvest run.
Janel Schemper
Schemper Harvesting
Wheat Harvest Correspondent
Janel Schemper was 6 months old when she made her first harvest journey.
“Harvest for me is a way of life,” the third-generation custom cutter said.
Schemper Harvesting, based in Holdrege, Nebraska, goes back more than a half-century, started by her grandfather.
Laura Haffner
High Plains Harvesting
Wheat Harvest Correspondent
Laura Haffner always loved agriculture and rural living, but never dreamed she would be living out that passion through traveling the backroads of the the Great Plains with a harvest crew. But, here she is! She and her husband, Ryan, own and operate High Plains Harvesting based in Park, Kansas.
June 6, 2023
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June 5, 2023
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June 4, 2023
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