U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. President J.C. Schemper is in Langdon, North Dakota harvesting crops. “We have five machines that sat all last week because of the rains. The wheat harvest is about half complete across the county and canola is probably 30 percent complete,” says Schemper. “There’s a long way to go with harvest in North Dakota.” Quality is a big concern with the remaining wheat. The canola has been running about 2,500 pounds per acre. Schemper has another crew harvesting high moisture corn in western Kansas. “That is running 30 to 33 percent, but moisture may dry with the high winds. We’ve had dryland fields at 140 bushels an acre and irrigated land at 220 to 240 bushels an acre.”
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