I don't want to say rain, rain go away because it is definitely needed in Kansas; but I am going to say that the rain is getting us behind schedule. Today we played a short testing game but knew we were going to lose. With not...
Today our daughter turns two- whether it's the terrible two's or the terrific two's we have yet to find out! After a long debate on what to give her for her birthday, we thought there couldn't be a better gift for this young harvester than her own...
Today, we tested and tested and tested some more and it was a no go! The wheat was just too wet to cut- it hung in at 16% moisture for the day. Since the elevator wants the wheat to be under 15% we struck out for the...
What does it take to unload a truck at the elevator? Oak shows us the steps. He untarps his truck and pulls onto the scale. The elevator weighs the truck and tests the wheat- to determine if there is any dock on the grain ticket....
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...
Just the other day, I laughed as I read Jenna's photo captions on the beautiful wheat they were cutting in Deerfield. It might just be a "harvester/ farmer" thing, but I understand the feeling she had. And the beauty does extend to toddlers too! After a...
Happy Independence day! Hope this post finds you in the field or at least in a festive mood. Hoffman Harvesting is at the point where we had to take a break from harvesting because of green wheat and rains that hit the Colby, KS and Goodland,...
Want to know what it takes to get a load in to the elevator? Check out this video of our team cutting near Gem, Kansas. Jada can be reached at jada@allaboardharvest.com. All Aboard is sponsored by High Plains Journal and DuPont Crop Protection. ...
Hailing from Sweden, Andreas (Moses) Norling is a 21 year-old joining us on his first harvest. His main duties are taking turns between driving truck and running combine but he is also in charge of overseeing anything that needs to be immaculate- this would include...
Meet Roland Baird, a 21 year-old returning for his second harvest run with us. You can see him most days running combine #4. He also did most of the seeding for us at home this year. This actually happens to be one of Roly's jobs...