Holdrege, Nebraska – Spring is my least favorite season but once it’s time to cut wheat I’m always so ready to sit in the combine seat. I love wheat harvest! It’ll feel great to be back in the field, in the combines and trucks and covered in wheat dust! I can’t wait for the early mornings and late nights to start up again.
I recently hauled a combine south for wheat harvest and I love the trip down memory lane. I’ve been traveling the same old roads and going on harvest my entire life. However, highway 183 has road construction in southern Kansas so we had to go another route part of the way. Kansas has areas of good-looking wheat. Northern Oklahoma does too, but way down south it’s just not great. There’s wheat that was zeroed out, sprayed or baled. It’s frustrating to see fields of wheat we would’ve cut. The farmers’ intentions were so good planting wheat, but we lost a whole lot of acres due to the severe drought.
Today is May 19th and I don’t think any wheat will be cut this week. We’ll have early and late wheat to cut at first stop. I’m looking forward to getting wheat cut and just being on harvest. Harvesters are a huge part of the grain that feeds the world and are the most dedicated people I know. Thank you, harvesters! Travel safe and best of luck to you all.
Janel Schemper can be reached at [email protected].
Thank you to our 2025 All Aboard Wheat Harvest sponsors: High Plains Journal, New Holland, Merit Auctions, Oklahoma Wheat Commission, Kramer Seed Farms and U.S. Custom Harvesters.
