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Once a Harvest Girl, Always a Harvest Girl

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Happiest in the combine!

Stephanie Osowski – Olson Farms

The hardest/weirdest thing to date I’ve discovered about working for a farmer? Wheat harvest only lasts 5-6 days. That’s with no hiccups, no breakdowns, just throw them in road gear and BOOK. Which is exactly how it went for us, which I should be happy about…right? But actually, my little harvest brain is saying, “Can’t we just throw the combines on a trailer and move up the road? Go help a neighbor?” Once a harvest girl, always a harvest girl.

Wheat will always have my heart. And be the prettiest crop to photograph.

Some visitors! This is Harper and Kase — some of the kids in town I’ve nannied for. Aren’t they adorable? Kase sat on my lap and kept trying to grab the steering wheel. Had to remind him about the auto steer a couple of times — no hands!

The whole “farm girl” title will fall in place with time, I suppose. Our wheat harvest started on a sunny Tuesday and ended on an equally sunny Sunday afternoon. When I say equally sunny, I mean it in the fiercest way. It was 98 degrees with 100 percent humidity. I have to confess; I was in the combine with a fully functioning AC so until I stepped out at the end of the day, it never really had a chance to get to me. Our wheat ran an average of 75 bushels per acre, protein anywhere from 11-14 and weights were coming in pretty consistently at 64 pounds.

Me and Kase 🙂
This is Kate, my farmers daughter. She’s 4, so obviously, she had to drive. Never too early to learn!

Our truck drivers drove by Dairy Queen every load and according to them, the pack of Dilly Bars they purchased for “the rest of the crew” never made it back to the field since they had to be rescued from the heat. By rescued, I mean eaten. But they were running their little trucking hearts out so all’s forgiven.

We are now in the midst of sugar beet pre-pile and on the brink of edible beans. On August 15th, a neighbor had already finished his first edible bean field of the season. These mega-dry conditions are making all the fall crops turn rapidly so we are looking at starting our own edible bean harvest within the next 10 days (give or take). Seems like once fall harvest and school starts, the fall just flies by. Dairy Queen said it best in their radio commercial, “Come get a blizzard before we get a blizzard!”

Sugar beet pre-pile, hopped out to check things out.
Really doesn’t get any prettier than that.
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