Steph: Harvest hood
Gurley, Nebraska – Harvest is all about the people. It’s about the people you harvest for, the people who provide you with your fuel, the bar/grill in the small town that cooks you supper every night,...
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Bridgeport, Nebraska – Just as I was letting off the clutch at a stoplight in town, a motorcycle revved the ever living out of his motor and sped by me. I about had a heart attack — hearing noises like...
View ArticleSteph: Roars in the rotor
Bayard, Nebraska – Well, courtesy of AAWH, Anderson Harvesting will be heading back south a bit to Pine Bluffs, Wyoming to continue the wheat run. Farmer Lance awaits us our arrival and Farmer Don can...
View ArticleSteph: Harvester’s hangout
Pine Bluffs, Wyoming – Anderson Harvesting is at its first standstill of the harvest 2017 season. Farmer Lance, with his 25 bushel average/62 pound test weight crop, is all cut up and now the real...
View ArticleSteph: Mountainous
Alliance, Nebraska – Okay, tell me honestly; if I were to have a fleet of pink cabovers with white hopper bottoms that coincidentally have pink polka dots, how do you think that would go over? It was a...
View ArticleSteph: Hot dog stands
Scranton, North Dakota – On one corner, the wheat is days away from being ready to cut. Across the road, the field is grass green and won’t be ready for weeks. A hop and a skip down the road, wheat is...
View ArticleSteph: Harvester’s hangout – part 2
Scranton, North Dakota – You know how when someone goes, “Hey, tell me a story,” and you draw a total and utterly complete blank? Then later on when you’re going about your daily life, the perfect...
View ArticleSteph: Monkey see, monkey do
Finally … rain! You know that phrase “you always want what you can’t have?” Well, in this case it’s simply a matter of wanting what you have no control over. Maybe one year everything will go our way...
View ArticleSteph: Buy me a rain
Grafton, North Dakota—The buzz in the air around our little town is tangible during wheat harvest. The smell of the tiny bits of wheat chaff billowing around in the air, the hustle and bustle at...
View ArticleSteph: Harvester’s hangout – part 3
Grafton, North Dakota–Whenever there’s any lull in conversation at a family gathering, you can bet a harvest story is brewing out of one of us. They are our go-to. We’ve always said we should have...
View ArticleSteph: My ten-year AAWH anniversary
Grafton, North Dakota—With the help of a few unexpected calls and texts, it came to my attention that this will be my tenth year contributing to the All Aboard Wheat Harvest program. Oh, the places I...
View ArticleSteph: Crops and kids
Grafton, North Dakota—In the simplest of simple terms, you could currently describe my day-to-day existence in two words; crops and kids. Between the task of growing baby girl Cronje till Aug. 17—yes,...
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