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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Braathen custom cutting crews began hauling the weekend of May 19, with the last of the equipment and crews arriving in Vernon on May 21. After setting up shop, they began cutting on May 22. “The hard ...