Today our equipment made the move to Kanarado, KS- a small town right on the Colorado border. To our surprise, we were able to get started cutting this afternoon. Whether the wheat was ready was questionable especially since not many combines were running in the area as we made...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture state field offices released their weekly crop reports following the Independence Day holiday. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are all reaching completion of harvest, while northern states are waiting on the wheat crop to ripen. Nebraska¹s southern counties are just getting...
Limon, Colo. - I don't have a lot of news from the wheat world to share today. The Z crew spent the afternoon cleaning vehicles, trucks and equipment, and getting things ready for the big move to Montana. This evening, a couple who we cut for...
Limon, Colo. - Good news! The final 15 acres that I posted about on Tuesday have been cut. Those acres were the few that were keeping us from being finished with harvest here in Limon. Yesterday afternoon we were able to get in the field and...
Limon, Colo. – I’m starting to feel a little antsy here in Limon. It feels like it has taken far too long to get the crop out this year. Between green wheat, wet wheat and the occasional rain shower – harvest has taken more time...
Limon, Colo. - When I posted on Monday that we were finally back to work again, I guess I spoke a little too soon. While we have been able to cut some over the past couple of days, we still haven't gotten back into a...
Last Chance, Colo.- I would like to first point out that we are actually cutting much closer to Last Chance, Colo. rather than Limon, Colo. where we are staying. I say this because there has been so much weather in the area that if the...
Limon, Colo. - We're back in Colorado for another harvest season and finally back to work. After making the second and final trip from Deerfield, Kan., to Limon, Colo., on Saturday and letting the wheat have another day to dry and ripen on Sunday, we hit...
Limon, Colo.-A whirlwind of events has happened the last couple of days, starting before we even finished in Dumas three days ago. It turned out that we only had 300 acres of wheat left to cut in Dumas during our 10-day hiatus. With four machines, that...
Deerfield, Kan. - The Z crew is finally on the move again after almost a week of downtime. We finished here in Deerfield on July 3 but stuck around for a few days because of the wet conditions and green wheat at our next stop...
