Holdrege, Nebraska – Hello harvest 2018. I am Janel Schemper and am a third generation custom harvester. Harvest has been a part of my life forever. Trucks and combines is my middle name and Princess ...

Mychal Neumiller, secretary for the U.S. Custom Harvesters, says they have seen some issues with harvesting fall crops, including wetter corn and poor soybean performance. As of Nov. 16, the USDA crop ...

Judy Horsch from the Andale, Kan., area stopped by and paid us a visit. I will have to say that this was a privilege. Judy is the granddaughter of the man who inspired the custom harvesting profession ...

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 ...

One common way that cattle producers enter into the direct beef sales world is by selling a live calf to the consumer and then delivering the calf to a custom processing facility where it will be ...

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 ...

Blake Krumbach was born and raised in South Dakota but has never spent a summer here. From the time he was 6 months old, he has spent every June, July and August in a camper with his family while they ...

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 ...

HUNTER — As treks from Texas to the Dakotas approached the Canadian border and the weary crew neared the end of another four-month campaign, Roger Nitsch often pondered giving up custom harvesting.