Under normal circumstances, if someone were to tell you that they traveled through Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska, you would think it took a long day (wide loads only go about 60mph on a good day). But since St. Francis, Kan is in the very northwest corner of Kansas,...
High Plains Journal Editorial Intern, Darrin takes a ride with Stephanie Osowski and meets the family behind Osowski Ag Service. For more information contact crew@allaboardharvest.com. All Aboard Wheat Harvest is sponsored by High Plains Journal and Syngenta. ...
Until today, you couldn't yank my brother out of the combine with a pry bar. Ever since we got our 9065 New Holland last fall, he can't get enough of its bells and whistles. On average, Brandon is able to go between 6 and 7mph. When...
There is a field we cut that is about 20 miles away from our home base in St. Francis, Kan. The thing about this field is that every single year we cut it, it pours. It doesn't just rain one night either, oh no. It...
As strange as if feels to say, we started cutting in St. Francis, Kan. yesterday evening, June 13th, around 5pm. We arrived here on Tuesday late so we waited till Wednesday to unload and piddle around with the equipment. Dad used to come here back in...
It's hard not to find yourself singing "On The Road Again" in your head every time you travel from stop to stop. Traveling conditions made for a very long day. We only went 250 miles but it felt like a thousand. Our travel route sent us straight through a...
Oklahoma- Our track record hasn't been at all impressive for the last couple weeks but believe it or not, we have gotten through another full day of cutting. That's two days in a row which is the most consecutive days without rain we have been...
With all this free time we've been given, we have came up with an answer to that question that has been haunting all of us. Why does it keep raining? Our ingenious answer: Mother Nature is bound and determined to put us all back on...
Normally servicing equipment in the morning can be tedious and repetitive but this morning, we all rather enjoyed ourselves knowing a full day of cutting was ahead. We got started only for our moisture to be at 14.2 percent, leaving us no choice but to...
We were skeptical for awhile that these rains would set in and never leave but leave us they have and we were finally able to get back in the field! We cut a sample around 3 p.m. this afternoon and got 13.5 percent moisture. Finally, good to...