Hoffman Harvesting wrapped up their tour in the Pratt area last night. Today we are blowing off machinery and power washing it to get it nice and clean. We are also greasing it and loading it up so it is ready to go when we are. Why do...
Hoffman Harvesting was back in the field yesterday afternoon. It was hot to the point of being miserable - 112 degrees- and humid enough to where the wheat got tough around ten. So once again, we didn't cut a full day but we are still...
Hoffman Harvesting got rained out after a rather odd day of cutting. We cut our second field we tested and then we had a day of running around trying to cut. It was hard to get a handle on the moisture. One load we took...
Yesterday, we were unable to cut due to the moisture. This morning when we woke up and saw the weather report, we felt even more pressure to get in the field. They are forecasting rain/ hail storms for the area we are cutting in. Around noon, we...
Hoffman Harvesting moved our homes from Kiowa to Pratt. A new address but still home! We finished up our harvest in Sawyer last night and upon our arrival with our homes headed out to the field to clean up the machinery. Once the machines were cleaned and loaded,...
Yesterday morning, two of our combines moved to Sawyer, Kan., to began harvest. The other two stayed in Kiowa to finish up...
Two days ago, we stopped cutting at 7 p.m. and were unable to cut yesterday. Since we are caught up with maintenance. We all went to the pool after testing the crop. The moisture seemed to be going up instead of down. With the hot dry weather, the day...
Hoffman Harvesting is still waiting on the wheat. Yesterday we completed most of the needed maintenance on our machinery and took it closer to where we cut. Our goal was to test the wheat. A quick glance at the ground was all it took- it's just...
Hoffman Harvesting got started cutting yesterday afternoon. The wheat is looking good and is yielding around 40 bushels/acres. However, the wheat is barely ready. We had to shut down around 7 p.m. due to running into to green wheat. Here are some photos of our...
Today just outside of Cherokee, OK combines rushed to get a 40 - 50 bushel crop in as flames licked through the field. The haste was alarmingly emphasized by the need to protect their burning cash in the form of wheat. In their rush to rapidly cut the wheat,...