14 Jul Later, Kansas
St. Francis, Kan. – It is always a sad day in the neighborhood when we leave St. Francis, but the time has come. Finishing up the last couple days has been a bit of a gamble when it comes to bringing trucks to town. The...
St. Francis, Kan. – It is always a sad day in the neighborhood when we leave St. Francis, but the time has come. Finishing up the last couple days has been a bit of a gamble when it comes to bringing trucks to town. The...
St. Francis, Kan. – To start, I need to tell you all something very exciting that I did. I ordered a T-shirt that says “St. Francis, Kansas” on it with a barn and a windmill—basically all of my favorite things on a shirt. Well, Mom...
St. Francis, Kan. – A non-harvest person would say working a 15-hour day must mean you got an extra large amount of work done. Lately, that is not so much the case. The straw is thick and the heads of wheat are plump full of...
St. Francis, Kan. – Another stop with a good crop, what’s a harvester to do? Rejoice, that’s what we do! The elevators, farmers, harvesters and gas station owners are all grinning with a wheat crop like this.The rain over the weekend slowed everyone down for...
St. Francis, Kan. – Road construction, pizza buffets and roadside bathroom breaks; that is what travel days are made of. We were able to finish up for Farmer Sheldon mid-afternoon on Tuesday (which was also Peter’s birthday). He averaged 62 bushels for his 2016 wheat...
St. Francis, Kansas—These last couple days, I have really gotten familiar with the back roads of St. Francis. Our fields range from being 15 miles west of Franny to 20 miles south of Franny. Rather than load up the combine for that distance, we just...
St. Francis, Kansas—Progress is something that can be gauged in couple ways. When the yield is doing well, counting scale tickets can assess progress. When the wheat isn’t doing so well, how fast the combine is able to zip through the wheat can assess progress....
St. Francis, Kansas—I hope everyone had a fantastic Fourth of July weekend! Osowski Ag Service spent it out in the field doing nothing more American than harvesting a beautiful wheat crop. Well, it feels American (and normal) to us anyway. We have a little bit longer...
St. Francis, Kansas—Words you’re rarely going to hear my dad say in the same sentence are, “I don’t think we’ve ever taken this way before.” Each summer, we take the same roads and stop in the same towns and fuel up at the same gas stations. So,...
Oh St. Francis, Kan., you are just so difficult for us to leave. The other day, we were ready to ship out. The combine was cleaned off, the header trailer was hooked up, Purple was hooked onto the hopper bottom and we were all in...