WASHINGTON, January 4, 2012 -Custom harvesters traveled to Capitol Hill prior to the Christmas break in hopes of persuading the House Transportation Committee to hold a hearing on legislation to ...

If USDA’s Prospective Plantings report holds true, producers are on track to plant 92 million acres of corn, more than 87 million acres of soybeans and almost 50 million acres of wheat this year. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc. recently hosted its 41 st annual convention January 25 to 27, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There were 1,080 people in attendance including harvesters, vendors, and ...

HENDRICKS, Minn. — South African workers have helped grow the Olsen Custom Farming into a custom combining powerhouse. Chad Olsen, 51, runs the company with his wife, Pam, from a tree-lined farmstead ...

The modern-day nomads who work in custom harvesting aim to help farmers manage their fields and budgets more efficiently. Custom harvesters travel wherever there's work spring through fall. They log ...

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 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 ...

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 ...