Mom, Dan and I decided to take a drive after the flood to go look around and determine whether or not we would actually cut this year's Oklahoma wheat crop. The roads were terrible. There is water everywhere and some fields are still underwater, but...
What a faith tester these past couple weeks have been! In a previous post I talked about how lucky we are to have had rain and that we actually have wheat around to harvest. I still stand by that statement and I am very grateful the rain has come,...
At our final stop of the harvest season last year, we brought home a couple of cats to be mousers outside. With the help of my nephew and nieces, they named them Conway and Loretta. (Both girls, yes!) I built them a cat house to...
Harvest 2015 has arrived! This statement is fairly simple, I admit, but it is profound! I will say it again: HARVEST 2015 HAS ARRIVED! Why am I so happy about this? Seven years ago, the ugly face of drought made an appearance. Each subsequent year...
Hemingford, Nebraska—Just like Dory, the optimist fish from Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo, Roland Harvesting's motto for the past couple weeks has been "Just keeping swimming." In reality, it feels as if we're swimming upstream in the Mississippi River. On May 21 the crew headed south to drop off part...
There hasn't been too much new to report until now. As you may have heard on the news, things have continued to stay wet (understatement) in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma until just recently. It looks like we'll have a break in the rain for...
As we sit in anticipation to leave for the 2015 harvest run, here are the Top 7 things we have noticed happen to us when it's time to hit the road. Why top seven? Because I am hoping lucky number seven will somehow speed up...
While harvest is on the horizon in the southern states, we are just finishing getting the crop in the ground up around home in good ol’ Grafton, North Dakota. We reside in a town that is close enough to Canada that we can listen to...
When it comes to harvest work, it isn't unusual that the best laid plans often get sidelined by the reality of nature. Schedule flexibility is the name of the game (a life skill I have to continue work on). Originally, we thought we'd have made...
Anyone who has spent a summer on a custom harvesting crew knows the feeling that sets in this time of year. The anticipation of harvest adventures and the excitement of heading down the road consumes your thoughts. You can practically smell the hint of wheat dust and...