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Custom Harvest Crews Work Their Way Across the Northern Plains

Published September 5, 2025

U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. President Paul Paplow is currently in northwestern North Dakota. “I’m in Fortuna, North Dakota. We have machines in Ray and Tioga, also. We just finished up with lentils out in Fort Benton, Montana, and those machines…

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Harvest Nears for Central North Dakota

Published July 28, 2025

Custom harvester Shawn Gallagher, who is based near Sterling, North Dakota, says the harvest in the central part of the state is just days away from starting. “There’s some winter rye that looks pretty good, we’ll probably combine that in…

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‘A Real Struggle’

Published July 22, 2025

Rain and cool temperatures are making it difficult for custom harvesters to make progress in northern wheat fields. Paul Paplow's crew has been near Great Falls, Montana, for several days with little field time. “It’s just been wet, been cool…

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Montana Lentil Yields Look Promising

Published July 22, 2025

In addition to wheat, the pulse crop harvest is happening in parts of the Northern Plains. Custom harvester Stefanu Schmidt recently relocated his crew to Havre, Montana. “We were reading anything up to like 30 bushel lentils so, yeah, we’re…

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Paplow: “Things Are Moving Quick”

Published July 11, 2025

Wheat harvest is moving ahead across the Plains  “Texas was down, but everywhere else has been really good so far,” said Paul Paplow of Paplow Harvesting and Trucking. "I know Nebraska looks good; North Dakota started on some really good…

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Custom Harvesters Worry Over H-2A Rules

Published December 21, 2023

Finding labor is the biggest challenge faced by members of U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. USCHI Secretary Mark Anderson points to the struggles with the H-2A program. “We’re running into a lot of regulatory issues there,” said Anderson. “We’re either going…

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Drought Hurts Nebraska Corn Yield

Published October 30, 2022

Mark Anderson represented U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. in the FFA Career Expo in Indianapolis. Anderson, who is based in Nebraska, says harvest has dragged on. "This year was one of the slowest harvests I've ever had because of the drought.…

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A Highly Variable Wheat Crop

Published July 19, 2022

Nebraska-based custom harvester J.C. Schemper is working in Montana after harvesting in Kansas and Nebraska. "We had a stop in Scott City, Kansas with some irrigated and dry land wheat. Yields ranged from 15 bushels per acre to 97 bushels…

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Winter Wheat Harvest Moves Along

Published June 19, 2022

U.S. Custom Harvesters President J.C. Schemper says the drought hurt the Southern Plains wheat crop. "We started harvest May 25 in Oklahoma. and one teammate averaged 18 bushels per acre. It was good test weight at 63 pounds. Protein is…

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USCHI Meeting This Week

Published January 27, 2020

The U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc. annual convention will be held later this week in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Red River Farm Network farm broadcaster Randy Koenen will be at this meeting to report on the 2020 crop outlook and the issues…

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