Wichita? Already frustrated by growing bureaucratic delays for hiring foreign workers, the nation’s custom grain cutters were hard hit this wheat harvest season by a short-lived Texas rule that ...

Wheat growers, always at the mercy of the fickle Oklahoma weather, have a new concern this year — whether there will be enough custom harvest crews to help bring in the crop from the fields. Beginning ...

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 ...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. Myron Eberts stood on the platform of his red Case IH combine with a matching red t-shirt — the only color shirt he ever wears — blue jeans, scruffy gray beard ...

Custom cutters and farmers alike are bracing for what will likely be the most expensive winter wheat harvest ever amid record high fuel prices. "We don't even know to hardly price the deal this time.

A tractor and grain cart, which is used to shuttle wheat from combines to trucks for hauling. (Michael J. Dax) After cutting their final acres of wheat in eastern Colorado, Jim and Tracy Zeorian, the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY—Wheat growers, always at the mercy of the fickle Oklahoma weather, have a new concern this year—whether there will be enough custom harvest crews to help bring in the crop. Beginning in ...

One of our sponsors this year for All Aboard Fall Harvest is US Custom Harvesters, Inc. USCHI is an organization that began in 1983 and represents and promotes the harvesting industry and those who ...

Lines of trucks loaded with wheat are a familiar site at grain elevators during harvest season. Those lines are rare this year, as the farmers and harvesters wait for hot, dry, windy days that are ...

WELLINGTON, Kan. -- Any other year would find Dave Hermesch a busy man, joining hundreds of other agricultural nomads in their combines to follow ripening crops of wheat across the Plains. But the ...

WICHITA, Kan. -- After several seasons of battling rising costs and a widespread drought, many custom crop harvesters are calling it quits amid skyrocketing fuel prices. About 25 to 30 percent of the ...