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Author: Laura Haffner

31 Aug

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, Crop Updates, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, Laura, Montana, Photos, wheat, winter wheat by
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Northern Montana: Harvest continues in the northern part of the "Golden Triangle." The crew ran hard for a few days then caught a rain delay. They ran hard again and then caught another rain delay. The rains are welcome though. In an area that has...

27 Aug

Posted at 17:00h in 2021, AAWH21, All Aboard, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, Laura, Montana, Photos, stories by
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Glacier National Park, Montana—Harvest is work, but sometimes it puts you within striking distance of places you may not normally be able visit. This has recently been the case. Glacier National Park has long been on my bucket list. With harvest being earlier this year, coupled with...

12 Aug

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, Crop Updates, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, John Deere, Kansas, Laura, Photos, Shelbourne Reynolds, wheat, wheatharvest, winter wheat by
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Northeast Colorado: As conditions allowed, we started funneling equipment into Colorado while some of us finished up in Kansas. The wet conditions have gradually turned off though. There were a few showers, as one expects on the Front Range, in the summer. The crew was...

06 Aug

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, Kansas, Photos, Shelbourne Reynolds, wheat, wheatharvest, winter wheat by
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Western Kansas: All the crews were cutting and that was a beautiful thing after all the weather delays. At this point, stress levels were increasing rapidly. Jobs further north were very close to ready with the hot, dry weather in that region. We still had many...

30 Jul

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, AAWH21, Colorado, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, John Deere, Laura, Photos, Shelbourne Reynolds, stories by
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Southeastern Colorado: There was a Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl on PBS a few years back. They described this part of the world as “no man’s land.” It is a sparsely populated part of the country where only the toughest survive. Extreme weather...