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We are currently getting geared up to be cutting May 15th in Texas this season and getting inquiries for our 2013 crew. Ideal candidates are single and under the age of 28 if you are not a US citizen, non-smokers, have a passport or able to get one, and willing to commit to the entire season. You must speak and understand English.

Although we previously had a full crew for 2012, due to unforeseen circumstances and a lot of winter wheat going to be fit at the same time we would now take another CDL driver. Contact us immediately if you are interested as we will be cutting early next week.

2011 photos are in the album, see the 2011 season page...

olde tyme crew
If you ever start to feel sorry for yourself in anything you do, remember these times..
Early 1900's South Dakota harvest crew

Fast-Maturing Wheat Crop in the Plains
APRIL 27, 2012
By: Sara Schafer, AgWeb.com Business and Crops Online Editor

The Wheat Quality Council’s 2012 hard winter wheat tour is on tap to record a healthy crop.

The warm weather than blanketed much of the Midwest and Plains during March and early April pushed the area’s winter wheat crops into overdrive.

USDA’s April 23 Crop Progress and Condition Ratings reveal 42% of the U.S. winter wheat crop is headed, which is significantly above the five-year average of 15% by this date.

Next week, the overall health and yield potential of the hard winter wheat crop in Kansas, southern Nebraska, eastern Colorado and northern Oklahoma will be rated during the 2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour.

Ben Handcock, executive vice president of the Wheat Quality Council, has been sampling wheat crops on this tour for the last 20 years. He is the chief organizer of the tour.

He says he’s only heard good reports about the area’s wheat crop this year. "The crop is at least a couple of weeks ahead of normal. Typically on the tour we’re counting the stalks of wheat. This time we’ll be counting heads."

Kansas and Oklahoma are currently 45% and 89% headed, respectively, according to USDA. The five-year average for this time period is 2% headed in Kansas and 35% headed in Oklahoma. In Colorado and Nebraska, the winter wheat crop is progressing on an average page, with neither of the state’s crops showing heads.

Kansas Wheat Conditions Improve, Texas Worsens, USDA Says
By Whitney McFerron - Feb 27, 2012 4:09 PM CT

About 52 percent of the winter-wheat crop in Kansas, the biggest grower, was in good or excellent condition as of yesterday, up from 49 percent a month earlier, as fields received precipitation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
In Oklahoma, 67 percent of the winter wheat crop got the top ratings, up from 54 percent at the end of January, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said today on its website. Sixty-five percent of Nebraska’s crop was good or excellent, unchanged from a month earlier. In Texas, 31 percent of the winter wheat received the top ratings, deteriorating from 32 percent a week earlier, the USDA said.
Areas of Nebraska, central Kansas and northern Oklahoma had triple the normal amount of precipitation in the past 30 days, while conditions were drier in southern Oklahoma and northern parts of Texas, National Weather Service data show. Drought conditions persisted in most of Texas, western Oklahoma and southern Kansas as of Feb. 21, after months of below-normal rain, according to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
“There has been some moisture around,” Larry Glenn, an analyst at Frontier Ag in Quinter, Kansas, said in a telephone interview today before the USDA’s reports. “For wheat producers, at least there’s a little bit of hope now.”

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