Janel: The wind works wonders

Southern Kansas – The wind certainly works wonders for our business. We are cutting wheat and it just got ready so the straw is a little green in places in the field. However, the wind helps so much in getting it combined.

This is a very nice wheat crop we are harvesting. It’s one of the best I’ve seen here. It doesn’t take long to get a hopper full. The tractor grain cart stays busy and so do the trucks.

Wheat harvest weather is finally here. It showed up a few weeks late but we’ll take it now. It’s supposed to be hot in the 90s and 100s and very windy the next several days. It’s June 19 now and I’m so happy we can finally cut full blast! Bring on the heat and wind to help dry out the grain and ground!

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.

Cutting a terrace in southern Kansas on June 18.
I love cutting here!
The wind is doing great things for getting wheat cut!
The wind is great today.
Harvesting a terrace field of wheat.
A beautiful southern Kansas sunset on June 18.
Harvesting late into the evening June 18 in southern Kansas.