On the road to the wheat harvest
With Mark Hodges at the wheel, we left town this morning about 8:15 a.m. and drove southwest on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike.
Hodges is executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission and is escorting me and Russ Jowell of the Oklahoma Horizons television show on a tour that is expected to include wheat producing areas around Grandfield, Walters, Frederick and up through Lone Wolf.
First stop was Apache, where we spent a few minutes at the Apache Co-op visiting with manager Kermit Gilbreath.
Most of the wheat around Apache isn’t ready for harvest, but Kermit said the first two truckloads of wheat were delivered to the grain elevator this morning. It came from south of Lawton, grown by a friend of Gilbreath’s.
The co-op also was taking some deliveries of canola this morning, which later will be delivered to a seed crushing operation in Oklahoma City, he said.
It was overcast as Gilbreath stood outside the Co-op headquarters about 9:30 a.m., which meant that conditions aren’t favorable for harvesting.
“The weatherman said at 6:30 this morning before I did my chores that we were going to have sunshine today,” Gilbreath said. “He lied to me.”
We’re back on the road, headed toward Grandfield.
Jim Stafford
Business News Reporter
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