Southwestern North Dakota—We finished up in South Dakota on Aug. 10 and hustled to get loaded and on the road to the next job. We got moved on up to North Dakota on Aug. 11. We left very early in the morning and traveled in 65 degree partly cloudy weather up here and that was nice. Now here we are again and it feels great to be back in North Dakota.
We unloaded equipment, looked at fields and started on a full section of wheat. We took a sample to town and it wasn't quite dry enough, we waited a few

South Dakota—It's no surprise that the spring wheat is yielding well after finishing an excellent winter wheat crop. The spring wheat is yielding over 75 bushels per acre. It's a heavy crop weighing 63 to 65 pounds per bushel. We are binning the spring wheat and the bins are filling up quickly. The bins have air so that's been a blessing to keep us busy.
The heat and wind have also been a blessing for getting wheat cut recently. We had a few 100-plus degree temperature days along with 15 to 25 miles per hour wind with 35 mph gusts so

South Dakota—The winter wheat has been excellent overall here north of Pierre. It's been outstanding to tell the truth. One quarter we cut yielded 95.1 bushels per acre. The test weights have been 63 to 65 pounds per bushel and the protein 12 to 14%. The straw has continued to be tough and green and that takes horsepower, fuel, and time to thresh.
We've been staying busy cutting winter wheat but just finished. It's now Aug. 1 and we are waiting on the spring wheat. We've had dry conditions as well as plenty of heat and wind and it's really changing

South Dakota—We got here July 20 and the winter wheat had green in it yet so we waited a couple of days to let it ripen. When we did sample it was 12.4%. So we've been staying busy cutting excellent winter wheat north of Pierre, South Dakota. It's yielding in the 80s and is a heavy crop weighing 65 pounds per bushel. The protein is above 14%.
The wheat is standing good but the straw has been green and tough and that takes horsepower and fuel to get through it. We just replaced all of the sickle sections on two headers

South Dakota—We just recently finished cutting wheat in western Nebraska and it’s been very hot and dry. Sadly, it was the worst crop I’ve ever cut there. The wheat production was down because of the moisture deficit. It’s been abnormally dry going on three years now. They received very little rain, no snow and had poor growing conditions including drought, wheat stem sawfly damage, wheat streak mosaic disease and a late frost. It results in a large financial hit for producers and harvesters. The wheat I cut yielded around 25 bushels per acre. That’s about half of what it usually

Western Nebraska—We traveled north to the Sidney, Nebraska area on July 4. I again had an uneventful holiday. I've spent almost every 4th of July of my life in the wheat field running combine. However, when we got here we did go straight to the field. We cut one load and then we had a couple of mild rain showers. When we arrived, the wheat was just borderline ready. There is still lots of green wheat around. The forecast is now hot and dry.

We've been busy cutting wheat but haven't had the best harvesting conditions. There are soft spots and

Western Kansas—To my surprise, we had a big time wheat crop to harvest out here in western Kansas. The farm had 22 inches of snow in late January and a few timely rains this spring. The wheat I harvested averaged around 70 to 75 bushels per acre. The test weights were 59 to 63 pounds per bushel. I am feeling very fortunate to have had such a beautiful wheat crop to harvest.

We just finished up today, July 3, and loaded up some equipment and sent some up to Nebraska. However, we've got to settle up with the farmer and load