High costs of owning machinery are leading more farmers to hire out custom work on their operation. Kent Thiesse gives a look at how those custom farm costs look for 2025. Hiring custom farm work like ...

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 ...

ONIDA, S.D. — It’s the busy season for custom harvest crews across the country. Crews like the Olsen Custom Farms start their harvest season in Oklahoma and Texas, then work their way up to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re planning out your harvest logistics and stumped on where you’re going to store all the harvested grain, grain bagging just might be the solution you’re looking for. Shannon McComas, vice ...