Harvest USA Report

Hale Broadcasting

The Harvest USA Report has been a favorite since 1985. Produced by Brian Hale, hosted by David Woodruff.

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    HUSA Jun 26 2026 - Mike Matejcek

    Harvest USA Report

    2 min

  2. 2d ago

    HUSA Jun 25 2026 - Mike Matejcek

    Today's guest is Mike Matejcek from North Dakota.   The discussion touches on the challenges of poor crop yields, particularly in Oklahoma, noting instances where no crops were combined for the first time in history due to various circumstances. The topic extends to weather conditions impacting farming activities, like heavy rains and hail. Specific examples include a friend in Lamont, Oklahoma experiencing significant rainfall and hail. It also highlights the strategic timing needed for harvesting, particularly when anticipated rains could disrupt operations.

    2 min

  3. 3d ago

    HUSA Jun 24 2026 - Harvest Crew Updates

    Let's take a look at where those harvest crews are rolling now with some precipitation around the country in some parts.   We see Frederick Harvesting cutting wheat at their home base in Alden, Kansas with three John Deere S7-700 combines.   Neumiller Harvesting says it's finally raining here in Leoti, Kansas. Time for a baseball game. (?) Well, since it was raining and they couldn't cut, they gathered in the field and played some ball. You do whatever you can out there on the harvest run.   Friesen Harvesting had some truck troubles on the interstate. That's never fun, they wrote. Got to St. Francis, Kansas and wet weather moved in last night, so we hurried up and waited. Got some more rain at home, so praise the Lord.   And the Oklahoma Wheat Crop Update is out. It's nearly finished in fact. This late season rain is still shaping tests, weights, yields, protein and the final 2026 crop outlook. In this Oklahoma Wheat Crop Update, Dave Deacon reports from a soggy Oklahoma State University agronomy farm in Stillwater with harvest estimated at about 95% complete. Mike Schulte with the Oklahoma Wheat Commission shares the statewide crop and market outlook, while Amanda Silva, PhD, Oklahoma State University Extension Small Grain Specialist, explains why 2026 will be remembered as a drought year and what producers can learn from variety performance and management trials from the Oklahoma Wheat Commission.   And finally, things are abuzz here at Harvest USA. In honor of Pollinator Month, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture is continuing to teach us more about pollinators this week. Contrary to popular belief, most bees nest in the ground and are considered solitary. Only honeybees live in a hive and are considered social.

    2 min
  4. HUSA Jun 23 2026 - Scottish Thistle

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    HUSA Jun 23 2026 - Scottish Thistle

    Well, our crews are getting busy in many places, but they do have time to write. And, we had an interesting note from High Plains Harvesting yesterday.    As you know, many Custom Harvest crews employ foreign workers. Longtime Scottish team member Calum enlightened us yesterday on some facts, with a picture below they wrote. You can find that picture on our Harvest USA Report Facebook page under High Plains Harvesting.    Did you know that the national plant of Scotland is the thistle? Crazy, because that's a noxious weed in a lot of places here in the U.S.    Well, here's the story. No one is truly sure of how the thistle came to be Scotland's national flower.   A well-known story, though, attributes the thistle, being chosen as the emblem of Scotland, to the Battle of Largs in the 13th century. The Norse army journeyed to Scotland, intent on conquering the land. The legend has it that they left their ships under cover of night, and were planning to ambush the sleeping Scottish clansmen. In order to be as quiet as possible, the Norsemen had removed their shoes. However, as they crept across the countryside, one of them stepped on a thorny thistle. His cry of pain roused the Scots, and the warriors rose up and defeated the invaders.   Now that's a natural defense system.    Also, the national animal is the mythical unicorn.    There are definitely some strange traditions in Scotland. That comes from High Plains Harvesting in between jobs. If you have something interesting that you'd like to share, be sure to tag HarvestUSAReport on your Facebook page, or send us an email. Or call us, the number is on the screen, right there at HarvestUSAReport.com. Get a report on the air. Tell us where you are, and how things are looking.

    2 min

  5. Jun 19

    HUSA Jun 19 2026 - Dave Hermesch

    The dialogue discusses the use of different crops in agricultural rotation, focusing on the cultivation of cover crops like rye. Rye is noted for its benefits in weed control and soil management, providing a tap root that helps fracture soil to enhance water holding capacity. This is contrasted with wheat, which has a root ball and may not offer the same soil benefits as rye. The agricultural practice under discussion involves planting rye as a cover crop after soybeans, with periodic spraying for weed control. There are geographic variations in agricultural practices; for example, while rye is commonly used as a cover crop in northeast Kansas, it is less common where the speaker is currently located. The region no longer cultivates cotton, focusing instead on soybeans and rye rotations.

    2 min

  6. Jun 18

    HUSA Jun 18 2026 - Slick Sanders

    Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. David had just asked Slick about how things turned out.   "This is probably the best year we've had in several years."   So that's for cotton or for everything?   "Well everything's been pretty good. I mean as a whole even the dryland milo made a little bit. Irrigated milo was good and a lot of these farmers they're starting to plant, keep them stubble, keep the stalks, the milo stalks and they spray it and keep it clean and those hold moisture if we get any snow if we do. And then they'll plant cotton in that stubble just like we do cutting wheat. We leave stubble and they'll plant cotton in that stubble. That cotton is protected from the weather and it keeps the ground from blowing. But they're finding that planting cotton in milo stalks they're getting two or three hundred pounds more lint by doing that. And I don't know why the reason other than the protection and maybe something to do with all the nodules and the roots of the milo keeps the ground a little softer. I don't I don't know but there's there's some benefits and they're seeing it and they're starting to do that. But when you plant that milo in a cover crop like that I mean the cotton when it's little it needs protection from the weather and the wind and it tries to grow really fast to get to the top of that cover crop so it can get to the Sun. So it speeds up the growing process of the cotton."   That's interesting.   "In places where they don't grow wheat much they can grow milo and use that for cover."   Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.

    2 min

  7. Jun 18

    HUSA Jun 17 2026 - Slick Sanders

    Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone. Let's see how Slick's doing with the wheat rat report.   How are things down there?   "We're through with pretty much all the milo harvest and corn harvest and basically almost all the cottons out of the field. They're still ginning on it. That's what we're doing right now, just hauling cottonseed."   You pick cotton, do you?   "No, sir. We just haul the cottonseed from the cotton gins to the oatmeal. Then they take the oil out of the seed? Yes, sir. They press that seed and get the oil out and they get more lint off the seed and they turn that cottonseed into cottonseed meal and then they take the cottonseed hulls.   That's all for cattle, you know, and so they use a lot of the cottons. So that cottonseed meal, that's a protein supplement, is that right? I believe so. I mean, they mix it in feed and the hulls as well and they feed raw cottonseed to cattle.   That's good protein feed too. So do you have any idea what the protein content is?   "No, I don't. I really don't. We just haul the seed to the oatmeal basically and then a lot of seed goes to dairies and flat storage, you know, to sell out later in the summer to dairies and feedlots and what have you. I got an idea that the protein in the meal will be a little bit higher than in the seed because of what they've taken out of the seed. Well, it's my understanding too, and they take the meat out of the cottonseed and they do something, cook it, I guess they make flour out of it or what, you know, but of course the oil, you can actually buy the oil from the oatmeal there for cooking oil."   Floydada, Texas Custom Harvester, Slick Sanders.

    2 min

  8. Jun 18

    HUSA Jun 16 2026 - Jake Damron

    Harvest USA Report

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The Harvest USA Report has been a favorite since 1985. Produced by Brian Hale, hosted by David Woodruff.

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  • Creator
    Hale Broadcasting
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1.5K
  • Rating
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