This year saw many challenges for wheat growers and those who harvest those crops. It was memorable for us because it marked 15 years of High Plains Journal bringing readers along on the harvest trail ...
Western Kansas — When we arrived out west on June 20, I didn’t know what to expect for wheat yields. To my surprise, the dryland wheat is yielding very well. The first quarter of wheat I cut made 95 ...
From the Dakotas to Texas, wheat acres have been on the decline, due to higher temperatures, drought and farmers shifting to ...
On the high plains of western Kansas, the horizon is ruler-straight and unobstructed, save for the occasional grain elevator, wind farm, or cell tower jutting into the sky. It’s a topography that ...
Whatever else they might have done on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend, a crew of volunteers arrived July 2 at the field farmed by Mark Smith on Kelly Road in Burr Oak. They spanned all ages ...