June 18

View of the day-Great Salt Plains Spillway NE of Cherokee, OK

Another cloudy and humid day, but we kept our fingers crossed that it would clear off. We moved the grain cart and tractor out to the field and then went into Carmen to hook up the combine trailer to the General grain truck to move it back to Cherokee. We stopped for lunch in Carmen, and then moved back to Cherokee, where we did a few repairs on the trailer and truck. The rest of the afternoon was a waiting game.

We talked to one of our customers, who had gone out and checked one of the fields we were to combine and they will be zeroing it out, since they figured it would only yield 1 or 2 bushels per acre. Not good news for any of us. We also received a call from northern Kansas, and they are already harvesting in that area. It seems the crop is ripening everywhere at the same time, and there have been a lot of crews heading north. At the restaurant at lunch, one of the local farmers was talking about how his neighbor's harvesters had pulled out and left him high and dry(well...not really dry...), so if we can't make it north, we might have to double back to pick up our lost acres.

We did go out and do a test, but it was still borderline, so we wait some more. It's tough to do when we are camped along the street the grain trucks use to get to the elevator, which is a half a block away. There's cutting somewhere, they keep rolling past.

Soon that will be us...