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Cutting Prices Hurt Farmers
Caldwell Kansas AP report follows veteran custom wheat cutter Bob Johnson Sr through a harvest season shaped by rising costs and fewer young workers. Johnson notes farmers cutting more of their own grain, higher fuel and machinery prices, and tighter budgets even as wheat yields prosper. He shares decades of work across Kansas, Texas, Canada, and Montana, plus memories from World War II and early harvest challenges.
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