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...
High Plains Harvesting Headquarters - We are just days away from 2016 cutting season! It is hard to believe that it is already here since we just stopped harvesting fall crops in December! Some of the equipment has already made the long trek from our country headquarters...
Wheat harvest is nearly complete for High Plains Harvesting for the 2015 season. What a ride it has been! In some respects it is hard to believe it is almost over, but in others, it feels like we have been at it a very long...
