Photos: Central Nebraska harvest season 2019
Lori Potter, Kearney Hub Modern technologies have reduced waiting time at area grain elevators during fall harvest, but short lines of big trucks still are common at sites such as the CPI elevator in Funk. The steps at the elevator include collecting a corn sample, weighing the full truck, unloading and weighing the empty truck.
Lori Potter, Kearney Hub A CPI elevator employee in Funk motions Monday afternoon for a truck driver to raise the box higher while dumping corn. Yields are expected to vary from field to field, primarily due to weather issues such as spring flooding, summer hail and high winds late in the growing season that broke off cornstalks. See more photos at kearneyhub.com
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WILCOX — Axtell farmer and Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson was back at work Monday, finishing harvest with his son Scott in a cornfield southwest of Wilcox.
WILCOX — An “about average” assessment seems almost like a victory for anything linked to the 2019 far-from-normal farming year.
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