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Wheat growers seek cutters for harvest
Published Friday, May 09, 2008 at 07:31 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Wheat growers in Oklahoma have a new concern this year _ whether there will be enough custom harvest crews to help bring in the crop from the fields. Beginning in May, custom harvesters generally work their way north from Texas with mammoth, diesel-powered combines that make quick work of wheat fields, traveling through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Despite record prices for wheat, some Oklahoma producers say the increasing cost of fuel and scarcity of labor have driven some custom cutters out of business. With Oklahoma's wheat harvest expected to begin over the next two weeks, that state's agriculture department today launched an online directory listing custom grain harvesters willing to cut in Oklahoma to help allay farmers' concerns.


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