Hoffman Harvesting is at a standstill in the Bowdle, SD area. We have been steadily cutting until this evening. The conditions have been rough and slow moving due to high humidity, sprinkles and short nights as a result. Now we are bumping green wheat. The wheat...
Texas- Wheat harvest neared completion in the Plains and the Trans-Pecos. In the Edwards Plateau, some producers continued to bale wheat hay. Oklahoma- Farmers continued to plow small grain fields with wheat and oats passing the 80 percent complete mark. Nebraska- Wheat harvested was 97 percent, compared...
We cut some acres, we ran into green wheat, we found some more acres, we went back to the green wheat and now I am proud to say we have finished up all our acres in the Hemingford, Neb. area. Our yields averaged in the 30s,...
Up until today, we were making a 40 mile trip to the fields we have been cutting the last week up by Chadron, Neb. We would have moved our home base (the camper) but we didn't anticipate it would take us as long as it did...
Osowski Ag has halted progress for the last couple days. On Friday (July 6th), we ran into more green wheat mid-afternoon and were forced to close up shop for the remainder of the day. There are only so many samples you can take before you...
Running into green wheat is almost as bad as when it rains. It leaves a crew with nothing to do. Lucky for us, we were able to find some work to fill the void. Unlucky for us, the route to the field involved a road...
After two days of marketing, we decided it was time to head to a stop where we knew we had acres to cut. I mean don't get me wrong, there is nothing like driving around with Dad, scouting fields and listening to him sing to Justin...
We were able to finish our acres in Big Springs, Neb. yesterday afternoon along with get all the equipment loaded up. Let me tell you, loading equipment in the sweltering Nebraska heat is no picnic. Seems we always pick thee hottest days to load equipment. Maybe we'll learn to check the...
When rain is about to hit our field, adrenaline overtakes us. As a custom harvester your goal is to keep cutting until it's absolutely too wet to cut without throwing grain over. We do this because we don't want a bad storm to flatten the...
Texas- Harvest in the High Plains is continuing to progress, while harvest in the Blacklands has been completed. Herbicide application and tillage had started for weed control on harvested fields. Oklahoma- Harvest was almost complete for all small grains. The wheat harvest was 98 percent complete...
