The end of June brought the harvest of our wheat. The yields for the wheat were fantastic… too bad we didn’t have the glass ball to foresee planting more wheat last fall. The harvest was about 4 weeks early.
Every year it is still so amazing to see the “amber waves of grain” against the corn & soybeans that neighbor the field.
Bob was in the combine and Phil was there to haul the loads. Not often do I get them both together for a photo.
Phil just had filled another semi load of wheat which is heading out here.
Of course, the spot-price for the remaining bushels was much higher than the price he locked in earlier.
and sew on... 
Living where I do now I marvel at the constantly changing landscape of the farmers all around. There is one route I take often that brought me past a wheat field. Every time I drove past I found myself singing “For amber waves of grain.” Truly, it is a beautiful sight!
That is the same thing that my neighbor said… singing the song. I enjoy having the wheat where I can watch it; which I had last year and this year.
Beautiful photos!
What is the spot-price? (I mean, what does that mean, not what is the $ amount) Is it good, or bad, that it was higher for the last bushels than the price he’d locked in before?
re: spot price
Phil had already priced 2 semi loads of wheat at some point before harvest. Not sure if it was last fall or later this spring. Then any bushels over that which he already priced gets whatever the current (spot) price would be. Either up or down depending on the breeze going by the Board of Trade windows. (LOL – not really but it feels like it!) So the leftover bushels price was even better than what he locked in… which at the time was very good. Oh, the game of farming…. *sigh*
J–great to hear you had a good wheat harvest. If you’re like most of the rest of the country, the corn/beans aren’t going to be much, eh?
Is that a Case/IH combine? Why did I think you were John Deere people? =D
Lona, yes we were thrilled with the good wheat harvest because even then the corn & bean yields were not looking too good. The estimates now are that we’ll get more like 40% or less for corn yields. But of course, you don’t know until it is in.
Yes, a few years ago we switched to the Case/IH combine. A lot of positives to move that way and it has been great. We are much more green/JD farmers tho. This was a big move for all of us!! 🙂 The corn head is still green!
Glad the wheat harvest is going to be good – ugh on the spot price 😦
That first picture, in particular, is just awesome.
I’ve been so concerned about the weather we’ve been having: glad the wheat did well. Very concerned for the corn crop.