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Traveling Wheat Crews Evoke Old West Romance
The Great Plains harvest rides again as custom cutters, led by Ralph McElroy, travel with combines across the Texas plains to the Canadian border. Their mobile crews cut up to 200 acres daily, earning about $8 per acre plus bonuses, amid a vast wheat harvest aided by a record 204 billion bushels national crop.
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Dave Bartel
Associated Press
America
Ralph McElroy
S. Custom
McElroy Rand Iis
McElroy
Texas Plains
Ike Ralph McElroy
Kansas Agriculture
US Department of Agriculture
Great Plains