Kimberly Neumiller

 

My name is Kimberly Neumiller from Neumiller Harvesting. I grew up in the small town of Fessenden, North Dakota, which is 25 miles from where I live now. My husband, Mychal, and I along with our two kids, Bentley and Payzlee, live near Bowdon, North Dakota.

 

Neumiller Harvesting is a family-owned operation that started in 1984 with Roger Neumiller combining for people around home and continued when his sons were old enough. Mychal and his cousin were the first ones to take the journey south in 2004 with one combine. That is when Neumiller Harvesting was created.

 

As the years went on Neumiller Harvesting added a few more machines and more employees. Today, Roger, Mychal, Cole, and Logan, along with their families, start the harvest journey in Texas with 10 Case combines, three Haul Master grain carts, and 15 semis. We are usually split up with machines running in four different areas. Our run continues through Oklahoma to Kansas, over to Colorado, then up through Nebraska and back to North Dakota.

 

We harvest spring wheat, winter wheat, canola, and durum in the summer and soybeans and corn in the fall. In the past years we have also done lentils, chick peas, and barley. Our fall harvest stays in North Dakota and we usually add a few more employees, another combine, and a grain cart. So, in total we will have 11 Case combines and four Haul Master grain carts running during fall harvest. In addition to the family, we will have about 20 employees. I am always treating them as one of my own because I know what it is like to be away from your family.

 

We are so grateful for all of our employees; some have been with us for six years and some employees will stay during the winter months to help in the shop or truck.

 


We have nine machines running on beans, and one combine is working on corn.  



Mychal finished beans in Butte, North Dakota, and brought one machine home to help Cole with our own beans. He sent the other one back to Turtle Lake to start on corn.  



Photo taken by Everett Finegan.



Roger and Cole started on our beans last week with three machines and ran for a few days before Roger loaded two up to head to Finely, North Dakota. Our beans are averaging 35-45 bushels per acre, and the beans in Finley are averaging 45-55 bushels per acre. 



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September was here and gone in the blink of an eye, and our soybean harvest has officially started.



Mychal moved from Westhope to Turtle Lake, North Dakota, to start on soybeans. He has been cutting beans for the past four days with two machines. The beans in this area are having some pretty decent yields as they are on irrigated pivots. They may have done a little better, but they have been hailed on a few different times during the growing season.  We have noticed that some are ripe and about to shell out, but some of the other fields aren’t


The beans here in North Dakota are about ready to be combined. It’s amazing how fast they turned this year. We still have combines in Westhope combining canola and some around Langdon working on canola as well.



Some of our employees fueling and reminiscing about their day.



Mychal moved out of South Heart and took those machines to Westhope to start cutting for another farmer. They had a few days of cutting before we had to shut down because the dew in the mornings was getting bad, and then we had a few days of rain.  We were hoping to start back up this week


Neumiller Harvesting has been in business for twenty years. A few of the farmers from our first few years are still allowing us to combing for them today. Mychal and one of his cousins loaded up a combine and headed to Vernon Texas where they had no job and no employees. Mychal’s brothers were still in school so they didn’t head south until school was out for the year. Mychal and his cousin found, David Belew, who was looking for a harvester and we are still combing for him twenty years later. Once they realized they had a






I left Mychal and the crew in Montana at the beginning of August to head home for football and school. The transition from camper living to house living is always a struggle for the first few weeks, but I do enjoy being able to wash a bigger load of laundry at a time and not running out of hot water. I don’t enjoy that it’s a lot more area to keep clean than the campers!



Mychal got back to North Dakota the last weekend of August, so, over the long Labor Day weekend, the kids and I headed to


I am not sure about all of you, but I think the summer went by faster than it normally does, maybe because we had fewer rain delays. My name is Kimberly Neumiller with Neumiller Harvesting out of Bowdon, North Dakota. My husband, Mychal, and I have two kids, Bentley and Payzlee. They have started school for the year already and, so far, are enjoying spending time with their friends.



My family enjoying a mini vacation to West Yellowstone



Neumiller Harvesting was established in 2004, which makes this our 20th year of doing what we love. We are a family-owned operation that is