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Custom cutters ride the wheat boom across the plains
The Associated Press profiles Ralph McElroy and crews who hire out with combines to harvest vast wheat fields. Amid a near record 2.04 billion bushels crop, crews travel from Texas to Canada, cutting 200 acres a day, earning up to 3000 dollars daily but facing heavy costs and weather risks.
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