07 Jul Steph: Dead Horse Road
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...
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06 Jul Z Crew: Firework-free Fourth
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Limon, CO- Normally, I would say that we haven’t had much excitement going on around here, but we actually have. Yesterday, Taylor was able to come back to Colorado after being in San Antonio. Mom and Dad didn’t want her to make the trip alone,...
04 Jul Steph: Check for snakes!
Every morning, we all know our duties for servicing equipment. We fuel up, wash windows, empty garbages, check the oil, blow out air filters, and any other general prep of the equipment. However, we're in one of those areas where we have to move the...
03 Jul Wheat Harvest Begins Wrapping Up In Southern Plains
Texas- Winter wheat and oats harvest continued in northern areas of the state and was nearly complete. Oklahoma- Plowing of wheat ground was 67 percent complete, 33 points ahead of normal. Kansas- Wheat harvest was all but completed by Sunday, compared with 76 percent at this time...
02 Jul Z Crew: Fast Cuttin’ In Colorado
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Limon, CO- Yesterday we finished up with all of our acres in Colorado! Things moved quickly, that's for sure. With the temperature being in the triple digits and almost no humidity everyday, you can imagine how we moved right along. The protein in the wheat wasn't...
30 Jun Steph: Cruisin’ the countryside
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...
28 Jun Z Crew: A Little Bit Of Everything
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Limon, CO- We started cutting around Limon on Monday, and haven’t really stopped since. It’s been boiling outside. No, literally, boiling. We’ve been seeing the thermometer reach about 104 everyday. Like we said earlier, we really are speeding through our acres. We’ll probably be done...
27 Jun The Z Crew Visit
Before the Z Crew hit the road to Limon, Colo., the High Plains Journal interns took an afternoon to visit the Z Crew near Deerfield, Kan. Callie, Taylor, Leanna and Darrin visit the wheat field. For more information contact crew@allaboardharvest.com. All Aboard Wheat Harvest is sponsored by...
27 Jun Emma: Tough Times and A New Appreciation
I am writing today with a new appreciation for life.
I've always considered myself an advocate for life, and an eternal optimist always seeing the light when it was darkest. God must have needed to give me a reminder of just how precious our lives are.
You may have noticed my absence from the blog in these last few weeks. I have a good reason I haven't been blogging about day-to-day life. On June 8 I got up around 6:30 a.m. and wasn't feeling that great, but naturally thought nothing of it. I went on with my morning working on combines, but things weren't getting better. I felt shaky, sick, and felt like I had a fever. When I asked Vincent to feel my forehead he told me I was cold and I knew something was not right.
26 Jun Steph: Friends of all ages
Another successful day of cutting for Osowski Ag. It was a bazillion degrees outside (more accurately 103 degress) so that made for getting in and out of the equipment a chore. Our yields were all over the board from 20s to 50s and anywhere in between....