Western Kansas: The crew is ALL in Kansas. Did you think this day would ever come? How long does it take to establish residency in Texas because it feels like we were well on our path to qualifying?!?!?! Ha! I'm done making statements like, "We...
North Texas: It should come as no surprise that with all the miles our crew covers, one has the opportunity to see a lot of wildlife. We try to respect their space, keep the wild things wild and the domestic things domestic. But one day while...
Ellis and Russell County, Kansas-- North central Kansas is nearly complete. It rained Saturday night with around fifty acres to go on our last farmer. We plan to wrap that up soon. From here, Mark and the crew will move to the HPH headquarters for harvest around...
North central Kansas — Last Tuesday morning, I packed up the kids and a few necessities and hit the road for home. It was nearly the middle of the month and I needed to go home and catch up on the bills, pay payroll taxes...
Texas —Ryan and I were hashing out technology and how it affects our crew the other day. We have been utilizing our map app a lot this year and in particular, pinpoints. I'm sure this all has some technical name I'm not aware of, so...
Burkburnett, TX - I don't spend a lot of time watching late night TV, or TV in general, but every once in awhile will catch the beginning of one of the late night talk shows after the local evening news as I'm finishing picking up....
Clinton, Oklahoma-- Mark is very positive about the progress the crew is making in Clinton. The fields are fairly close together and the haul to the elevator isn't too long, so we're fortunate that this is a very efficient job, especially after being delayed in the previous...
Burkburnett, TX-- What's a harvest crew to do in the rain and wet weather? Last week they found out. The guys were on shortened hours for obvious reasons since we weren't out in the field. They did odds and ends maintenance on the equipment to...
Burkburnett, TX-- "I just saw a fish swim across the road." That was the statement I heard from Ryan when I called to check in mid-day on Thursday. I didn't really need to hear any more. That more than answered my question. Apparently it was...
Burkburnett, Texas-- Saturday, May 28th will go in High Plains Harvesting's history book as the kick off for wheat harvest 2016. Ryan took a sample on Friday and it was 14.6 percent moisture so we knew we were close. Finally, Saturday afternoon, we got the...
