At our final stop of the harvest season last year, we brought home a couple of cats to be mousers outside. With the help of my nephew and nieces, they named them Conway and Loretta. (Both girls, yes!) I built them a cat house to...
There hasn't been too much new to report until now. As you may have heard on the news, things have continued to stay wet (understatement) in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma until just recently. It looks like we'll have a break in the rain for...
As we sit in anticipation to leave for the 2015 harvest run, here are the Top 7 things we have noticed happen to us when it's time to hit the road. Why top seven? Because I am hoping lucky number seven will somehow speed up...
While harvest is on the horizon in the southern states, we are just finishing getting the crop in the ground up around home in good ol’ Grafton, North Dakota. We reside in a town that is close enough to Canada that we can listen to...
When it comes to harvest work, it isn't unusual that the best laid plans often get sidelined by the reality of nature. Schedule flexibility is the name of the game (a life skill I have to continue work on). Originally, we thought we'd have made...
Weren’t sure you’d see me back this year, were ya? Be careful what you wish for! Turns out the “harvest fever” I always talk about is a lot more of a thing than I ever imagined. That and it’s in my blood, so there is...
High Plains Harvesting is excited to be entering our fourth year of harvesting and our first year as a member of the All Aboard Wheat Harvest family! While this may only be our fourth year in business, my husband, Ryan, has been around agriculture his...
One of my favorite highlights of harvest has always been having kids come out to the field - whether they're a toddler or a pre-teen I absolutely love having little ones around. Watching that proud smile beam across their face as they confidently drive the...
Jordan, MT/Louisville, NE: Summer 2014 started a little rocky. Without jobs in Texas or Oklahoma due to drought/frost, no one really knew what the rest of the season would be like. Thankfully, it was better than most expected and some farmers even had the best...
This year has been one for the books. It was a hard summer considering we had nothing to cut, but it has been a great blessing as well. Since we were stuck at home, we were able to catch up on a lot of things we...