The Road to the Harvest continues…
Our trip deep into southwestern Oklahoma last week concluded with a visit at dusk to Lone Wolf and Planters Cooperative Association manager Kenny Hahn. The Lone Wolf stop was the last in a trip that covered more than 400 miles and included visits to grain elevators and customer haervesters in Apache, Walters, Frederick and Eldorado.
Bottom line: At least in southwestern Oklahoma, the wheat harvest appears to be much better than the 149 million bushel forecast by USDA statisticians.
What I learned from the trip: Rail service plays a much larger and vital role in the shipment of wheat out of Oklahoma than I realized. Many elevators are serviced by the so-called “short-line” railroads that connect to the major lines such as BNSF.
In the top photo, workers load a grain care at dusk at the Lone Wolf co-op. Bottom photo: Cassidy Grain employee Joe Martinez stands on a catwalk above a railcar as he loads wheat into it at the Frederick grain elevator.
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