Western Kansas – We made it out to western Kansas yesterday, on June 25th and we are right on time! We had a good trip and went straight to the field. The good hot days are here, and we are busy harvesting a very nice wheat crop. The dryland is high yielding, but the test weights have been lower. The crop had freeze damage in April.
We have six combines here harvesting wheat and three combines by Dodge City. All nine combines have on Shelbourne Reynolds stripper headers. Our forecast looks to be hot with highs in the 90s, and sunny and clear. I hope we can just keep going until we are finished here. The hot dry wind helps and the heatwaves do too.
We had a visit from MacDon in early June. JC, Jared and I were interviewed on what we like about our MacDon headers. I say what’s not to like about MacDon headers? We had John Deere headers for over 25 years and traded for MacDon headers in 2014. The article and 11-minute video can be found at the link listed below. Enjoy! https://www.macdon.com/stories/born-to-harvest
Here it is on YouTube too. https://youtu.be/VjXvxjblJFw?si=b2NNm2HVrUrLj8uh
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.
