Garden City, Kansas - Music has a way of taking a person back to a time and a place that meant something. The song, "The Boys Are Back In Town", was popular the summer of 1976. A time when I was a whole lot younger and never...
Enders, Nebraska – I’ve traveled quite a few miles the past couple of days while moving equipment from Kansas up north to southwest Nebraska. Our Kansas run was short this year. Usually we spend the 4th of July in western Kansas but there was nothing...
Garden City, Kansas - The word that has been out of most farmer's vocabulary for a very long time, recently returned. RAIN...
Dodge City, Kansas area – Has the same old song and dance ever gotten on your nerves? That’s what has been happening lately on harvest. I’ve been down this road many times before where we have lots of wheat to cut but we can’t get...
Chase, Kansas - It's amazing how fast you lose all track of time and days of the week while on harvest! I often question myself what day of the week it is. So, when someone asks a question that involves a day, I'm like, "Ummmm...
Kinsley, Kansas – The wind had blown for days and there was rain in the forecast. We harvested wheat up until it started raining. Luckily, we got the field done and got the combines parked for the night and then the wind hit. Soon after,...
Kinsley, Kansas - We have been lucky enough to have wheat to cut and harvest weather lately. We’ve also had south winds 20 to 35 mph for several consecutive days which has allowed us to start earlier in the mornings and cut later into the...
South Central KS - We moved through Texas in record time because it was our first year without any sort of rain delay, and, as we have said before, wheat acres were down due to weather conditions. Our next stop was Custer County, Oklahoma. Around...
Manley, Nebraska - Who mows their yard at 11:00 pm? Me. Thank goodness for headlights on the mower! Actually, it was sort of like cutting wheat at night - a good change from the norm. I'm certain the neighbors looked out their window once or twice...
THE HARVEST HAND “The harvest drive is on again, John Farmer needs a lot of men; to work beneath the Kansas heat, and shock and stack and thresh his wheat.” ~ Harvest Land, by T.D. and H, From the Little Red Song Book. Manley, Nebraska - When I tagged along with...