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 ...

Think you’re suffering at the gas pump these days, aghast at the cost of filling up your little Honda Civic – or, worse, your sport utility vehicle? During the average day’s work in the field, the ...

WELLINGTON? Any other year would find custom cutter Dave Hermesch a busy man, joining the hundreds of other agricultural nomads whose combines follow the ripening crops of the wheat harvest. But the ...

As if farmers didn’t already have enough problems, now Kansas custom cutters are saying they may not come into Oklahoma or Texas because of poor wheat conditions. Drought and freeze have damaged the ...

DODGE CITY - Custom cutter Dave Wolf may be a long way from home, but when his combine breaks down in a wheat field in the middle of nowhere, there is someone to call. The Gleaner tech team will be ...

Some kids play summer ball, go to camp and take swimming lessons. But standing in his father’s machine shed – with three shiny red combines in the distance all ready for the long haul from Texas north ...

Braathen custom cutting crews began hauling the weekend of May 19, with the last of the equipment and crews arriving in Vernon on May 21. After setting up shop, they began cutting on May 22. “The hard ...

Hayden and his family kicked off wheat harvest around 3 PM, rolling out with three combines ready to tackle the fields. Right from the start, things got interesting – technical hiccups with the ...

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 ...

Western Kansas–We’ve been rained out three times while we’ve been harvesting wheat in western Kansas. Some of the wheat has been laying flat on the ground. The conditions haven’t been the greatest ...

The Kansas Department of Commerce kicked off the 2005 season of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Program on Wednesday. In its 40th year, the program is designed as a free employment service that brings ...