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 ...

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 from 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 ...

INMAN, Kan. (AP) - Custom cutter Larry Schroeder should be at Kiowa right now with his three combines and handful of employees. But his equipment is still parked at his Inman-area operation. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...