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This farmer got their harvest underway on Wednesday, August 5 and were able to get through three hundred acres today.

This is a crop of field peas and the two combines working in this field had to unload their hoppers at each end of the field keeping the truck going steady between the two.

The combines are using floating pickups which slide directly along the ground cutting the crop only inches high. This solved for this non-agricultural type, the problem of this spring when large rollers were being used in the fields. This farmer explained that the rollers push any small rocks to be found on the surface down so that this close cutting operation can proceed at harvest time.

The high temperatures make for absolutely perfect harvesting

conditions and even the twenty-five knot South wind did not hamper the swathing or straight combining process. Crops yet not mature are quickly finishing off their growing season and will be ready in days.

When asked about the duration of harvest this year, this farmer pointed out that even though they have got off to an early start he expects that they will be in the fields taking in the crop of 98 until the end of the month.

It would appear that the warm currents of El Nimo have pushed the central prairie growing year down about ten degrees of latitude as this is the time of year we normally see harvesting in Southern North Dakota.


This farmer got their harvest underway on Wednesday, August 5 and were able to get through three hundred acres today. This is a crop of field peas and the two combines working in this field had to unload their hoppers at each end of the field keeping the truck going steady between the two. The combines are using floating pickups which slide directly along the ground cutting the crop only inches high. This solved for this non-agricultural type, the problem of this spring when large rollers were being used in the fields. This farmer explained that the rollers push any small rocks to be found on the surface down so that this close cutting operation can proceed at harvest time. The high temperatures make for absolutely perfect harvesting
	conditions and even the twenty-five knot South wind did not hamper the swathing or straight combining process. Crops yet not mature are quickly finishing off their growing season and will be ready in days. When asked about the duration of harvest this year, this farmer pointed out that even though they have got off to an early start he expects that they will be in the fields taking in the crop of 98 until the end of the month. It would appear that the warm currents of El Nimo have pushed the central prairie growing year down about ten degrees of latitude as this is the time of year we normally see harvesting in Southern North Dakota.