Round Lake, Minnesota and Elkton, South Dakota—Paul brought one machine home last weekend to combine early beans, and we rounded out this weekend making a trip back up to Elkton, South Dakota, to start picking corn. All our crew aside from Paul and I are still working on durum by Ray, North Dakota.
By Round Lake, Minnesota, it’s been a great start to fall harvest. Beans are combining well at around 11.2% moisture. I feel like these beans must be about the only beans in this area that are ready at this time, but it won’t be long

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Fortuna, North Dakota—It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend. Zoey and I made our way back out to Plentywood, Montana, and helped Paul’s crew get campers moved over to Fortuna, North Dakota. Crops look great in this area and are already disappearing quickly, even since I left a week and a half ago. It's good to see that crops have progressed with the hot dry weather, and we should be able to continue moving until our wheat harvest season in complete.



In Fortuna, durum has been combining great averaging about 50 to 60 bushels per acre. The guys

Western North Dakota—We got moved further west and north and are near the Montana North Dakota state line. When we got here, we went straight to the field. We have been cutting barley and hauling it to air bins. The barley has been yielding 70 to 90 bushels per acre.
We are now cutting durum wheat and it's yielding around 35 bushels per acre. The durum is a beautiful amber color and threshes nicely. It's dry around 9 percent moisture and we are hauling it to the farmyard bins. We have all 8 combines here and have barley

No two harvests are just alike and this has been an interesting one. We had the stress of not knowing when our new combines would arrive and couldn’t get an answer. We got five new ones right before harvest and then three in late June. We were initially expecting them in March. Another challenge has been the fuel price. It’s no good. The best wheat I cut was in western Kansas. It was pivot irrigated and made 97 bushels per acre. The best dryland wheat I cut was in South Dakota and it yielded 95 bushels per acre. My favorite

As Jones Harvesting celebrates our 40th anniversary of harvest, it's been hard to not be sentimental. Every wheat run year is different, defined by a handful of events unlike any other. Every single day for the past 40 years has been chronicled in a hand-written diary that now spans well over 3,000 entries. It's almost like having your own personal time machine. Some pages contain fond memories, while others recall hardships we'd rather forget. Boxes of photos tell a story filled with changes, from the size of the equipment to the size of the children