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22 Jun Christy: Late starts and late nights

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, Christy, harvest21, Texas, Uncategorized, wheat, wheatharvest by Christy Paplow 1 Comment

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[caption id="attachment_20005" align="alignnone" width="600"] (Photo by Mike Less, Farmhand Mike.)[/caption] Early this week we started going steadily, and the rain finally backed off. Most days we didn’t get going until well after noon, usually around 4 to 5 p.m. I'm amazed we could work as late...

18 Jun Laura: Bring on the braai!

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, All Aboard, All Aboard News, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, Laura, Photos, stories, Uncategorized, wheat by Laura Haffner 2 Comments

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Northern Texas: The wheat finally dried down enough for us to cut a whopping two truckloads Sunday evening before the rain started again that night. I suppose on the positive side, two truckloads is better than no truckloads, which is what the stats sheet had...

17 Jun Laura: Cabin fever

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, AAWH21, All Aboard, Crop Updates, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, Laura, Photos, stories, wheat, wheatharvest, winter wheat by Laura Haffner 2 Comments

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Northern Texas: Rain, unusually cool temperatures, overcast skies and puffy clouds have continued their unwelcome stay down south. Very little cutting is happening from custom harvesters and farmers alike. Normally, when I’m running up and down the highways, I see machines rolling, dust clouds rising...

16 Jun Christy: Finally! Rolling here and there

Posted at 12:00h in AAWH21, All Aboard, All Aboard News, Christy, harvest21, HPJ, Texas, Uncategorized, winter wheat by Christy Paplow 1 Comment

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This is a very unusual year. Texas normally has really hot, dry weather. In years past, I can remember having one really awful storm when we first arrive down south, then things dry quickly and go. Last year we witnessed a really terrible hail storm...

14 Jun Janel: Fighting the overcast

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, AAWH21, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Combine Goals, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Journal, HPJ, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Oklahoma, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, uschiharvest2021, wheat, wheatharvest, winter wheat, www.SchemperHarvesting.com by Janel Schemper 2 Comments

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Southwest Oklahoma – I had thoughts of going on harvest and cutting wheat right away when we arrived May 25. We waited around for several days before we got to start cutting. We definitely didn't come here to sit, we came to work but there's...

09 Jun Janel: The wheat’s changing colors

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, harvest21, High Plains Journal, HPJ, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Wheat Harvest, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, uschiharvest2021, winter wheat, www.SchemperHarvesting.com by Janel Schemper 3 Comments

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Southwest Oklahoma–We arrived at our first harvest stop on May 25. The wheat was still a little green and the forecast not so hot. We took the time to attend the US Custom Harvesters, Inc. safety meeting in Wichita Falls, Texas. It was a very...

07 Jun Laura: Waiting on go

Posted at 12:00h in harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, Laura, Photos, stories, Texas by Laura Haffner 26 Comments

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North Texas: While on the phone together, I asked Ryan, “So, when do you think we can start?” Ryan’s reply, “Well, if we could just miss this rain, I think we have some that would likely go now." To give you a time reference, it is Memorial...

31 May Janel: Three-thousand mile week

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, AAWH21, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, harvest21, High Plains Journal, HPJ, Janel, John Deere, Kansas, MacDon, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, uschiharvest2021, wheatharvest, winter wheat, www.SchemperHarvesting.com by Janel Schemper 5 Comments

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Holdrege, Nebraska—I’ve traveled over three thousand miles recently hauling equipment to our first stop on our wheat harvest run. The wheat looks so green and lush almost the whole way down. I enjoy the trips going south for wheat harvest. I hauled a combine and...

26 May Laura: Cheers to a new year!

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, AAWH21, All Aboard, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Harvesting, High Plains Journal, HPH, HPJ, Laura, Photos, stories, wheat by Laura Haffner 2 Comments

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Once upon a time, there was an elementary aged girl who enjoyed mowing her parents’ blue grass yard on their John Deere lawn tractor. She had lots of dreams about what she might be or do when she grew up, but never once did she...

25 May Meet All Aboard’s newest correspondent – Christy Paplow

Posted at 12:00h in 2021, aawh, AAWH21, All Aboard, Christy, harvest, harvest21, High Plains Journal, HPJ, Texas, Uncategorized, wheat, wheatharvest by hpj_admin 2 Comments

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Harvest hasn’t always been a part of my life. My name is Christy Paplow and I grew up right outside of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2006, I made a far-away move to Lake Park, Iowa. It was there in Lake Park that I met my husband,...