If you see harvesters on the road or parked in campgrounds, you will often see 10 wide, silver campers. They may not necessarily look pretty like new campers on the outside but harvesters love these campers which are quite "homey" in the inside. They are...
It seems to be the general consensus among a number of harvest crews scattered between the Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado borders that the weather does not want to cooperate with us for the time being. Imperial, our current stop, has seen many rounds of rain during the...
I am afraid to say something to have the same effect as last time but...
Scott Clark’s crew finished harvesting in Goodland, Kan., and has been looking for more wheat to harvest while waiting for the crop to mature in South Dakota. Weather is rarely predictable. However; many people in northwest Kansas could have probably told you it was going to...
While wheat harvest is near completion in Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma, the northern wheat states of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado are in the beginning stages of harvest. Below are the USDA crop reports for the week of July 11. Texas: Irrigated wheat harvest is now near...
The Misener crew is back in Elk City, Okla., repairing an all crop head for one of our customers -we're stripping it down to the nuts and bolts, literally. I'm so grateful to have the resources and knowledge to do these tasks. I suppose I...
I don't want to say rain, rain go away because it is definitely needed in Kansas; but I am going to say that the rain is getting us behind schedule. Today we played a short testing game but knew we were going to lose. With not...
Today our daughter turns two- whether it's the terrible two's or the terrific two's we have yet to find out! After a long debate on what to give her for her birthday, we thought there couldn't be a better gift for this young harvester than her own...
Judy Horsch from the Andale, Kan., area stopped by and paid us a visit. I will have to say that this was a privilege. Judy is the granddaughter of the man who inspired the custom harvesting profession, Joe Tucker. He was the Massey-Harris vice president and...
While the dry weather has allowed progress in harvest activities in some areas, the hot and dry conditions have severely hurt some the wheat crops. Below are crop conditions for selected states provided by the USDA.
Texas Dry-land winter wheat harvest near completion in areas of the Plains while irrigated winter wheat harvest is in full swing. Wheat harvest in areas of the Blacklands has seen good progress and is near completion. The Texas wheat crop has been rated: 54 percent very poor, 23 percent poor, 14 percent fair, nine percent good and zero percent excellent.
