Holdrege, Nebraska — It's now Dec. 8, and I'm still going to the field. I'll be busy tomorrow picking a quarter of irrigated corn. It is, hopefully, the last field for 2024. Overall, it was a beautiful fall harvest. The weather was so good all fall.





Around home, the soybeans yielded around 60 to 80 bushels per acre. The lower yields were due to summer hail. The corn had extreme yield ranges, too, anywhere from 150 to 250-plus.





It was 65 degrees this weekend and so nice. Our forecast this week is cooler with highs


Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas is right around the corner and, roughly four months after that, we will be gearing up for another season.









Mychal, the kids and I spent our Thanksgiving break in Winnipeg, Canada, this year. We got to tour the Elmer’s Manufacturing factory and the Macdon factory, went to a Manitoba Moose hockey game, watched some figure skating and did an active escape room called Activate. Bentley enjoyed the Elmer’s tour as he likes to run the grain cart, so he was pretty intrigued with how it was built.














We got home and, two days


Bishop, Texas — Hi y’all! We began our harvest in mid-May, harvesting wheat. We ended our harvest on Dec. 1, picking cotton. This is a normal harvest run for us. However, not all of our seasons work out this way. Sometimes we end in October, and sometimes we end in February. It always depends on the weather.





I say we have completed the season, but what I really mean to say is that we have finished picking cotton. We still have several loads of cotton bales to haul to the cotton gin. We can haul eight bales on


Beans by Round Lake, Minnesota.




Worthington, Minnesota — This fall has been quite different from years past. We saw in the beginning what appeared to be one that would last into December, but weather conditions changed the story. We ended earlier than before, pretty close to Halloween, and not without at least one snow in the mix.





Our tractors ran well this fall.




Weather was the main factor in determining how quickly our season would go. With hardly any rain in the forecast and temperatures staying well above the average for this time of year, we were able to


Holdrege, Nebraska — Harvest is still going on around home. There are two combines out in the field yet. Our crew of Chopper, JC, Sunder, Sage and Sterling have been staying busy harvesting corn and wheat. The A-team is back because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The kids were out of school and loved going to the field. The corn was irrigated and had average yields. It wasn't standing well so it was necessary to go slower to get it harvested correctly. The wheat was planted after the summer hail and was standing very well but was shelled


Hi y’all! We began Thanksgiving week with picking cotton. We hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving! We ran for a couple of days, then took Thanksgiving day off and headed to Galveston, Texas, and celebrated Thanksgiving with some family. After that, it was back to picking cotton for Brian, Wailynn and Wyatt. Wesson, Whitleigh and I enjoyed some time off and caught a movie with some family.





The cotton has remained the same, about 1 bale of cotton per acre. This is almost average for this area. I am not sure if I have mentioned this before, but a

Lindsey Orgain

Orgain Harvesting

Lindsey Orgain is somewhat new to the harvest trail.
She and her husband, Jason, have Orgain Harvesting in Cheyenne, Oklahoma.
It is the 11th season in the business, but it was in 2014, two years after she married Jason, that Lindsey decided to quit her job and come aboard full-time for the annual harvest journey.

Brian Jones

Jones Harvesting

For 35 years, Jones Harvesting, based near Greenfield, Iowa, has made an annual trek from Oklahoma to North Dakota, harvesting golden fields of wheat for farmers who have become like family to the Jones family.

Tracy Zeorian

Z-Crew

Tracy Zeorian has followed the ripening trail of wheat since she was 12 years old.

Zeorian’s grandparents, Elvin and Pauline Hancock, had been making the annual harvest run from Texas to Montana since 1951.

Janel Schemper

Schemper Harvesting

Janel Schemper was 6 months old when she made her first harvest journey.
“Harvest for me is a way of life,” the third-generation custom cutter said.
Schemper Harvesting, based in Holdrege, Nebraska, goes back more than a half-century, started by her grandfather.

Laura Haffner

High Plains Harvesting

For Laura Haffner, there is not a better way to see the Great Plains.

She and her husband, Ryan, have High Plains Harvesting based in Park, Kansas. The couple, along with their two young children and a crew of about a dozen, travel from Texas to the Canadian border to harvest wheat, canola and peas.