Custom cutters becoming scarcer as harvest moves into Nebraska

From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: July 3, 1999| Author: ROXANA HEGEMAN | Copyright information

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WICHITA -- Mel Thompson, a Medicine Lodge farmer who grows wheat near Hardtner, hasn't been able to find a custom cutter to harvest his fields -- even when they do dry out between rains.

"It has been a difficult year because they are still cutting in Texas, and they are supposed to start cutting in Nebraska the first of the week," he said Friday. "There is more and more dependence on custom cutters who follow the harvest from Texas to Canada." His plight is b...

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