Harvest Giveaway Winners
Thank you to everyone who entered the barstool contest! We thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s harvest traditions/memories, along with seeing the photos people shared!
Congratulations to our winners:
Maxine Radenberg – Facebook
Mary Guttieri (@Wheat_MaryG) – Twitter
Kourtney Talkington (@ruralrootednutrition) – Instagram
Hayden Heigele Wheat harvest 2018! My favorite harvest tradition is my mother or grandmother bringing beirocks to the field. This is a very special occasion!
Maxine Radenberg Riding in the combine with hubby, David. It had AC!! The red cab over semi (Simba) I drove had no AC. Some harvests got pretty warm!
Brianna Gough My favorite harvest memory is taking lunch to the guys when I was little and then riding around with grandad and my uncle the rest of the day. Also playing in the wheat that was in the back of the grain truck.
Neil Bekemeyer Supper in the field when I was a kid. Sloppy joes in tin foil, and tea in mason jars. Being lifted up into a straight truck to play in the wheat. Best memory of wheat harvest.
Gina Peak Favorite harvest memory is my aunt (Sister Fredrick) bringing lunch and supper to the field for us. She was such a great cook!
Staci Garriott My favorite memory of wheat harvest was riding in the combine with my grandpa and munching on fresh wheat seed!
Dot Harries As a child, riding on the combined platform as my dad was harvesting wheat!
Troy Presley Being old enough to drive the tandem to town by yourself!!
Jodi Chalk Venable Memories of harvest with my Family. Miss this
Katie Urban We have meals in the field every day during harvest. There are some foods that are "harvest foods" in my mind, no matter the season. Examples include zucchini sausage cornmeal bake, lime pear jello, bean and cornbread bake, and King ranch chicken.
Erin Mckain My oldest growing wheat in the back yard with left over seed wheat. Ten harvesting it when ready
Rebecca Lynn Aschenbrenner The Uhrich farm in 2020 it’s 100 years old. I remember having to scoop the wheat in the truck to level off the wheat, I remember it being so hot so sweaty I love the smell of cutting wheat and also I always enjoyed the Chewing on a wheat straw these ar… See more
Kathy Younger Riding on the combine on my grandparents farm in Kansas.
Zach Vincent Bringing all the equipment in and Sitting in the back of a 1997 GMC safari van at the edge of the field eating supper together.
Molly Marple-Drimmel Combine cab full of kids!
Courtney Siemens When we're all done, it's a beer or two together & a trip to town, for a sit down & relaxful dinner.
Shawn Taddiken Taking a picture of all the kids a day or two before harvest, it’s simple , but a cherished memory/tradition.
Ron Mcconnell My Dad and I harvested 80 bushel per acre Newton hard wheat one time. In the mid 70,s.
Tonetta Stieben The harvest crew meals and conversations.
Eric Harper Getting the truck stuck during a wet harvest
Elaine Unruh Helping with harvest by driving grain truck in Oklahoma!
Tammy Thompson Eating noon meal in field
Ashton Gebhard As weird as it is, helping dad fix things when there was a breakdown. I'll really miss him this year.
Scott Gengler Lots of good memories cutting wheat with friends.
James Nuss Running a 660 case combine that my grandpa ran.
Kyle Buffington Memories of my grandpa. He’d run the combine with a sweatshirt on cuz the a/c worked so well. I think he did it on purpose to make the rest of us sweat out in the heat just a little more. Hahahaha
Mary Marsh My favorite harvest memory is riding with Hayden Heigele in the combine on the 5th of July, burned to a crisp and he let me drive!
Paula Jean Carlson Favorite memories are combine rides with grandpa, riding and waiting in line with my dad and getting a free pop. Other memories are my son taking and loving rides with his dad, grandpa and uncle. Addison loved semi rides too!
Marvin Schlatter Best memory, getting the free pop when you hauled loads in to the elevator.
Anita Sakala DeWeese Meals at the field with the family. Everyone sits down and enjoys some time together to reflect on the blessings.
Pamela Erichsen Miller Best memory is riding in the combine with my dad.
Lynn Erichsen Sohnrey Best memory, waiting for dad to pour wheat into truck and them swimming in the wheat!!!
Shelly Huffman Heimer My best memory is riding with my Grandpa in his Minneapolis-Moline open air combine in the 60s and going to the Carlton elevator in the old truck.
Carmen Day Kraus Taking lunch out to my Dad and having a picnic in the field!
Diane Pickering Going to the elevator that my Grandpa managed during harvest. Helping get wheat samples and watching all the trucks coming in.
Kyle Kaiser Taking in the harvest every year with the family!
Laura Unrau Meals in the field and getting a can of pop at the elevator!
Dianne Kvasnicka Family… owned/ operated. 3 Gleaner Combines and 4 Trucks, no air conditioning, and no automatic roll tarps, and no cell phones. Always Thankful to dump at the Elevator, and head back to the field.
Lottie Douthett I may not have harvest memories, but I sure do look forward to it every year! I use Kansas flour exclusively in all of my baked goods and LOVE the turkey red wheat for bread baking with Kansas wheat and family makes great memories too!
Carrie Blubaugh-Ball Family! Combine and trips to the elevator.
Amber Heier Stewart Frozen Snickers bars in the harvest Field at lunch!!!
Lesley Schmidt Family time and capturing special moments with my camera.
Mary Anne Stoskopf Another Grandpa Wayne wheat harvest story was when the Sunflower Journeys PBS crew was out here filming. They were talking to Wayne and asked him something and he replied, "Really, it's just a good excuse to get away from the wife!" They laughed and laughed over that. (Wayne & Mildred had been married 50+ years by that time!)
Dean Harder My Mennonite ancestors were among those who brought the Turkey Red Wheat to Kansas. My Grandfather was a farmer near Meade. My father, uncle, and aunt, worked for Friesen Harvesting several seasons after they graduated from high school. As I was grughed over that. (Wayne & Mildred had been married 50+ years by that time!)
Louise Ehmke Growing a little Turkey Red! And this wheat weaver returned the next day on her birthday to swath a whole car load of Turkey Red. Plus yesterday a gardner in Garden City wanted a small bag of seed for his garden. I brought him a very small sample. He was so happy to receive Turkey Red seed.
Deborah Penner Our grandchildren in the wheat field.
Brenda Unruh Enns So many memories, after 40 plus years of being a farm wife plus many years growing up on the farm. A couple of favorite memories are when the grand kids come out or our sonscan be out here to help us. Also the wonderful meals My grandmother would cook during harvest. She didn't drive so we would go and pick up the meal that she had worked on all day for us.
Mary Anne Stoskopf One of our favorite wheat harvest stories is when Bill Spiegel stopped by one of our fields and walked out to the old Massey combine. After Grandpa Wayne finally got off to talk to him, Bill asked if he could ride with him. Grandpa Wayne said "No," climbed back up and started off again. Bill had fun telling us about it later.
Paula Letholt Blasi Driving the wheat truck every summer growing up was so much fun. Summer of 1968 we got our picture in the paper. The wheat harvest crew of Paul and Ray Letholt had a different look from the usual gang of harvest hands but they got the job done anyway. Driving the trucks while their dad‘s operated combines were Gayle, Linda, Renee, and Paula. Gayle and Renee’ are Ray’s daughters and Paul is the father of Linda and Paula. So who needs boys for wheat harvest?
Louise Ehmke
Gregg Mickey Growing up helping on grandparents farm shoveling wheat in the grain truck.
Cheryl Miller Combine rides are my favorite memory. I got to be with my father and could smell the wheat as it was harvested.
Vicki Lynn Scheele Best wheat harvest memory back in the early 70's riding with my mom in the old straight truck to the Linn Co-op Elevator, wondering if we were going to make it up the long hill and she had to shift it into "granny". Also riding in the old 60-somethingChevy pickup with wooden stock racks on the bedside, going to the elevator to dump, driving the front tires onto the lift, and hoisting the front end of the truck up and dumping the wheat! Thought it was so fun!
Cole Stucky Best memory is riding with my grandpa in his old 850 masseys when I was young, got a few good naps in behind the seat!
Mary Anne Stoskopf It's become a tradition for the grands to choose to ride Grampa's combine because he has more snacks!
Glenita Gamble Dearden The memory of harvest was the long line of grain trucks in the 70's all in a line at the elevator waiting to weigh. My dad was a scale repair man and they were waiting for him to get the scale working. It made an impression on me.
J.R. Darcy Dumping the wheat every year
@kenton_nickel Great memory of cutting wheat yesterday on the ground where my wife’s great-great grandparents brought the wheat and homesteaded in 1874!
@FVocasek Sitting on the ground with your back on a combine tire, in the shade of the old Gleaner combine. Eating a ham sandwich and drinking lemonade that Mom brought to the field for lunch. Finish off with a slice of apple pie amid the smell of freshly cut straw and dry soil.
@ElastigirlB We had our own elevator to store wheat on our family farm. One of my favorite jobs was driving our wheat tub (grain cart) to our elevator when we were not hauling the wheat to the coop.
@pdqbach55 Past memories include not only wheat harvest with family, but also celebrating the birthday of our twin granddaughters on June 28. There was much rejoicing over their emerging presence during a difficult early birth. It’s a memory we will treasure always.
@dwbeisner Running an elevator, I enjoy seeing the kids riding in the trucks to dump wheat.
@Wheat_MaryG #1 memory: 2018 at Ashland Bottoms, KS. Sacking behind the Hege plot combine. >100 F. My dear husband brought out popsicles to my team in honor of my birthday.
@MikeWetter5 My favorite harvest memory is helping my grandfather scoop wheat out of an old Chevy pickup bed into a wooden grainery. We used a small electric auger to get the wheat into wooden bins and then leveled off the bins for storage of the wheat.
@SharHeiser Like the colors of harvest and everyone working together
@patty.j.tidwell A just-cut load of wheat on a small 1950’s truck and being allowed to climb over the side and stick our toes deep in the kernels. I can still smell the wheat and feel the Kansas air at sunset.
@erichsenmiller My favorite memory of harvest is when I got to ride in the combine w/ my dad
@ruralrootednutrition My favorite memory is riding with my grandpa in the combine. I think about him every time harvest rolls around.
@Timothy_dillingham I was just a kid in the 1960s but always went on wheat harvest with my parents custom harvest business. Favorite stop was always Brewster, KS. Seems like we were always there on 4th of July.