Well, here goes the foray into new territory. We hope this will help to keep everyone updated on our harvest season, and keep us on our toes with our "weakly" reports. Yes, it was spelled correctly.
For those who don't know us, we are Al & Marilyn Kuntz, from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. We have been custom harvesting in Canada and the USA on our own for the past 14 years, and were hired on with a couple of other crews for five years prior to that. We had two combines and support equipment, for the first eight years, which meant hiring employees. Anyone who has their own business, or has to hire to fill positions, will understand the difficulty in finding quality workers, especially ones that are willing to leave their home/family/girlfriend for an extended period of time. We went down to one machine in 2001 and although we are inseparable for five months solid...we're still together.
Most years, if the crops are decent, we start in Davidson, Oklahoma, three miles north of the Red River which is the border between Texas and Oklahoma. We continue our way north, following the ripening crop all the way into Canada, and then return to North Dakota for the fall harvest of soybeans and sunflowers. Most years our season ends mid to late October, but we have returned as late as November 27.
We have always sent out an email to let everyone know how things are progressing along the way. These emails, were meant to be weekly, but they usually end up monthly, or even more widely spaced. This means that when they do arrive in the inbox, they are really quite long and windy, and cover quite a bit of ground. With this blog, we hope to have an daily entry (even if it is uneventful) and hopefully if you register, we can find out what you think about it and perhaps what is happening in your part of the world.
For those who don't know us, we are Al & Marilyn Kuntz, from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. We have been custom harvesting in Canada and the USA on our own for the past 14 years, and were hired on with a couple of other crews for five years prior to that. We had two combines and support equipment, for the first eight years, which meant hiring employees. Anyone who has their own business, or has to hire to fill positions, will understand the difficulty in finding quality workers, especially ones that are willing to leave their home/family/girlfriend for an extended period of time. We went down to one machine in 2001 and although we are inseparable for five months solid...we're still together.
Most years, if the crops are decent, we start in Davidson, Oklahoma, three miles north of the Red River which is the border between Texas and Oklahoma. We continue our way north, following the ripening crop all the way into Canada, and then return to North Dakota for the fall harvest of soybeans and sunflowers. Most years our season ends mid to late October, but we have returned as late as November 27.
We have always sent out an email to let everyone know how things are progressing along the way. These emails, were meant to be weekly, but they usually end up monthly, or even more widely spaced. This means that when they do arrive in the inbox, they are really quite long and windy, and cover quite a bit of ground. With this blog, we hope to have an daily entry (even if it is uneventful) and hopefully if you register, we can find out what you think about it and perhaps what is happening in your part of the world.
