On The Farm: Nick`s Wheat Harvest
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| 9/23/2009 |
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| Sunday is usually a rest day on the Dreyer farm, but sometimes during harvest, especially this late in September, you can`t mess around. We have followed my wheat for more than 15 weeks and from the looks of the stand, it seemed like a great crop, but a farmer isn`t satisfied until it`s in the bin. Excitement was high. Even the farm dogs, Ginger and Tucker felt the anticipation of harvest. One of the great things about living in the country is neighbors helping neighbors. In my case, Tom and Scott Smith had caught up enough on their land to help me out. "They got two bigger combines and I kind of asked them before and it was a little more than I wanted to deal with,” says Orlan Dreyer, Willow City Farmer. Dad and I were tasked with hauling grain and we found out we were in for a big job. "I probably had small pieces as good as this, but this is a tremendous wheat crop,” says Dreyer. With low prices at the elevator, bins all across North Dakota will be full this year. It`s no different on our farm. Dad had about 4000 bushels of storage left for me and the rest had to be sold. "Beautiful color, big plump kernels, you don`t find it much better than that,” says Dreyer. The only thing missing in the wheat this year was the protein quality. Anything below 14 percent protein will be hit with a price penalty. Mine ranged anywhere from 11.8 percent to 12.5 percent so I`ll expect a $1.00 to $1.50 in discounts per bushel. "But you have a big yield, so that should make it up,” says Dreyer. They say in North Dakota, if you don`t like the weather, wait five minutes and it`ll change. On cue, at the end of the day the clouds rolled in. We finished everything but 30 acres. Rain delayed harvest for two days, but we finished and another harvest is in the books. "Well, we had a good summer and I think we enjoyed some time together with the work we did and overall I think you`ll come out ok,” says Dreyer. KMOT’s Nick Dreyer farms 145 acres near his hometown of Willow City. |
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