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 ...

WICHITA — Custom cutters are having no problem this season finding enough people to fill out their crews as wheat harvest gets under way.Pam Shmidl, operations manager for the industry group U.S.

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, and his baseball hat adorned with the logo ...

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 ...

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 ...