Though we awoke Tuesday morning to find the ground was covered with puffy snow, apparently the custom harvesters are anticipating the arrival of spring and wheat to harvest in the southern states. The editor of this newspaper was looking out the front window of the newspaper office, when he should have been writing this column and saw what appeared to be a custom harvesting crew heading south.

Highway 14 has long been a popular route for the harvesters.

When the Blauvelt family operated a gasoline station near the Kansas-Nebraska stateline, we could count on each year selling truck fuel t...