Laura: Fire danger - All Aboard Harvest

25 Jul Laura: Fire danger

Posted at 13:00h in 2017, aawh, All Aboard, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Harvesting, HPH, John Deere, Laura, Photos, wheat by Laura Haffner 3 Comments

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Hardin, Montana – Things can get pretty dry in Montana in the summer. That doesn’t sound like that unusual because a lot of places get dry. However, it takes on a different meaning when you’re dealing with some of the desolate areas that make up the state. There aren’t always the square north/south or east/west roads every mile or so like you find in some parts of the plains. If lightning strikes, and a fire starts, it’s not always very easy to fight because of the very remote, and often rough terrain. Same can be true for a fire started by harvest equipment. The fields in the part of the world can be very large, I’m talking 1000+ acres. If a fire starts and blows through a field, the consequences can be devastating and extremely difficult to fight. Crews are often driven from the field for rain, but at this stop, the crews have been asked to shut down when the fire risk seems especially high, which is completely understandable. There are disastrous fires currently burning in the state.

Our crew recently moved to a different farm. The wheat is very good. They been averaging around 80 bushels per acre so far. They’ve seen lows in the sixties and highs around 100 bushels per acre.