Combining just south of Brewster, Kansas. Stripping wheat right before a rainstorm popped up and shut us down. Brewster, Kansas — We are still trying to finish combining here in Kansas, but the rain ...

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Fort Benton, Montana—Crops here in Montana are by far the best we’ve cut this year. We’ve split into three groups, combining by Highwood and Carter. Yields are anywhere from 60 to 120 bushels per acre ...

Feed wheat, marketed for fattening livestock, is as cheap as it gets, and Montana, which rarely has any, seems to have a lot. “A lot of them have had damage, and they’re figuring out what they’re ...

For 2004, in figures just released by the Montana Agricultural Statistics Service, cash receipts to farmers and ranchers totaled $2.52 billion, or $500 million more than 2002. Cattle and calves ...

BROADVIEW—The combine roared to life as Michelle Jones drove head-on into a golden sea of Montana winter wheat, the machine’s sharp teeth taking a first of a million bites from 1,500-acres that will ...