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Steph: Elevator Shenanigans
Rain is the one factor that can make or break a harvest day. The forecast (according to smart phones) has only included a 20 percent chance of rain the last couple days, which anyone around here will...
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Steph: Waitin’ on Wheat
Progress for Osowski Ag Service has been brought to a halt by green wheat. We have an irrigated circle and one field north of town that we are anxiously waiting on. Usually these types of things happen...
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Steph: Final Days in Hemingford, Neb.
Where, oh where, has the summer gone? Osowski Ag Service is now all packed up and ready to return to our stomping ground in Grafton, N.D. The half circle we were waiting on ripened up nicely and we...
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Steph: Return to the Homeland
During harvest we have structure. We all have our own delegated tasks to complete each day; mom makes breakfast, dad buys ice and fills up water jugs and the cooler, and Brandon and I fuel up and...
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Steph: Travel etiquette
Make like wheat and head out. Blow this Popsicle stand. Make like a banana and peel. Pick your favorite key phrase but it all means the same—we gone. Osowski Ag Service has finally hit the road! Day...
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Z Crew: Load ’em up, move ’em out
Manley, Nebraska—IT’S TIME TO GO! Yes, you read that right, it’s time to leave for harvest! Dad talked to the farmer on Sunday and we have wheat to cut. And it needs cut NOW. Woo-hoo! Yesterday and...
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Steph: Freedom of choice
Some would say a routine is hard to get into. When it comes to the harvest routine, there is nothing more familiar to Osowski Ag Service. Actually, come to think of it, we have all made comments about...
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Steph: Universe, you call the shots
Helena, Oklahoma—The plan was set. Dad announced that we would be getting all our ducks in a row and heading to our next stop by the afternoon. These “ducks” included paying our fuel bill, paying the...
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Steph: Takin’ samples
Helena, Oklahoma—With this humidity lingering in the air, the days have been starting off a little bit slow. We service equipment just slow enough in hopes that we can get going when we finish, but to...
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Steph: Good run of bad luck
Helena, Oklahoma—I would like to first wish a Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! My dad, Grandpa Hiladore and Grandpa Bob are the strongest men I know and life would sure be boring without...
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Steph: The Sunflower State
Lyons, Kansas—So long to red dirt, 98.3 Coyote Country and the higher probability of seeing an armadillo. Osowski Ag Service is now residing in the Sunflower State! We left late in the afternoon on...
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Z Crew: Combine Cam connects us to the world
By Tracy Zeorian Technology is an amazing tool for any business. But it’s especially good if you’ve got a story to tell and you want the world to know about it. Your story can be told to the entire...
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Steph: Onward
Lyons, Kansas—Short and sweet is what this stop was! Why is it that summer is the best part of the year but goes by the fastest? In the words of Red Dirt country singer Aaron Watson, “a little bit of...
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Steph: Who likes predictable, anyway?
St. Francis, Kansas—I hope everyone had a fantastic Fourth of July weekend! Osowski Ag Service spent it out in the field doing nothing more American than harvesting a beautiful wheat crop. Well, it...
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Steph: Back roads trump pavement
St. Francis, Kansas—These last couple days, I have really gotten familiar with the back roads of St. Francis. Our fields range from being 15 miles west of Franny to 20 miles south of Franny. Rather...
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Steph: Changing ZIP codes
Big Springs, Nebraska—The time has come to bid farewell to St. Francis! It’s always bittersweet but we were there for two weeks, which for a harvester feels like a decade. The best part of going around...
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Steph: So many grains, so little time
Grafton, North Dakota—So much to do, so little time! The last few days have been full of all sorts of different jobs that sneak up on a person. Brandon has been doing some shop work on our Versatile...
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Steph: Four times the fun
Grafton, North Dakota—Didn’t think I would leave for the year without saying goodbye, did you? I wouldn’t dream of it! To say things have been chaotic around the Osowski household is an understatement...
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Plus one
Grafton, ND — Mom calls me the other day and says, “I had the first person ask me.” She did not even have to clarify and I knew what she was referring to. In April, a couple weeks ahead of schedule,...
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Combines Rolling for Team HPH
Burkburnett, Texas– Saturday, May 28th will go in High Plains Harvesting’s history book as the kick off for wheat harvest 2016. Ryan took a sample on Friday and it was 14.6 percent moisture so we knew...
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