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28 Aug

Posted at 20:40h in 2019, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Combine Goals, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, North Dakota, Schemper Harvesting, South Dakota, spring wheat, Truck Goals, Uncategorized by
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North Dakota–The entire month of August has felt like fall up here in the Dakotas. For harvesters, this takes a lot of patience as it causes us opportunity lost for income and puts us behind schedule. We need heat, wind and sunshine to cut lots...

23 Aug

Posted at 12:05h in 2019, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Combine Goals, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Schemper Harvesting, South Dakota, spring wheat, Uncategorized, winter wheat by
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South Dakota–The month of August has been awfully cool. What we need to make harvest progress is heat, sunshine and wind and it seems we can’t get much of any of them.  It is frustrating.  All harvesters up north are dealing with these cooler temperatures...

25 Jun

Posted at 12:05h in 2019, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Combine Goals, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Oklahoma Wheat Harvest, Schemper Harvesting, Tough Conditions, Truck Goals, Uncategorized, winter wheat by
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Weatherford, Oklahoma – Being a custom cutter has been very challenging lately due to the tough cutting conditions in Oklahoma. We haven’t had great harvesting conditions yet and the month of June is almost over.  We’ve had so much humidity and lots of mud to...

15 Aug

Posted at 11:33h in 2018, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, North Dakota, Schemper Harvesting, spring wheat, Uncategorized by
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Grand Forks, North Dakota – We arrived at our last harvest stop here in North Dakota earlier than ever. There is a drought going on here and the farmers are praying for rain especially for their soybeans.  There are lots of fields of soybeans and...

30 Jul

Posted at 14:15h in 2018, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Photos, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, winter wheat by
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Pierre, South Dakota – We made the big trip from Sidney, Nebraska up to the Pierre, South Dakota area and had a great trip. The outside temperature was only 70 degrees and we didn’t have any tire troubles.  That’s a lot to be thankful for...

16 Jul

Posted at 10:25h in 2018, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, wheat by
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Sidney, Nebraska – It’s been hot and windy and we have been busy cutting wheat lately. The yields have been anywhere from 25 to 60 bushels per acre.  The wheat quality has varied.  The test weights 57 to 65 lbs and the protein 9-12%.  If...

20 Jun

Posted at 16:30h in 2018, aawh, All Aboard, All Aboard News, Brent Avalanche, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Photos, Schemper Harvesting, Sponsors, Uncategorized, winter wheat by
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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...

12 Jun

Posted at 09:12h in 2018, aawh, All Aboard, Brent Avalanche, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Journal, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Photos, Schemper Harvesting, Uncategorized, wheat, winter wheat by
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Weatherford, Oklahoma - What an interesting spring we had this year. The cold winter air finally gave up in May.  I was asked over 100 times when I was leaving for harvest.  I typically don’t have the answer until the time comes to leave for...

02 Aug

Posted at 07:17h in 2017, aawh, All Aboard, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Journal, HPH, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Photos, wheat by
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Pierre, South Dakota – We are slowly making progress. We have been here a couple of weeks now and for the most part have spent most of our time waiting on spring wheat to ripen. We have cut a few fields (some have been hailed on), and overall the wheat is yielding around 30 bushels per acre. The protein has been 17-20 percent, which is excellent. However, the wheat is light, weighing about 55 pounds or so. The wheat is standing good, and the conditions have been fair. What we really need are some good drying days, including lots of heat and wind. That would help our wheat harvesting progress a lot.

29 Jul

Posted at 09:27h in 2017, aawh, All Aboard, Crop Updates, harvest, High Plains Journal, HPH, Janel, John Deere, MacDon, Photos, wheat by
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Fort Benton, Montana - Last year 25 percent of our crew went to Montana.  This year 75 percent of our crew went to Montana to harvest winter wheat, spring wheat, chick peas and lentils. They have been there for about ten days and have been harvesting full blast nearly every day.

The winter wheat has been averaging over 60 bushels an acre, 62 pounds and 13-14 percent protein.  Sounds good to me!  It took the crew three days to get all of the equipment from Western Nebraska up to Montana, so I hope they have the best of luck there and continue getting in some big days of harvesting!