The late, Gerald Boyles loads his Gleaner combine onto a truck bed as he prepares to head to southern Kansas to cut wheat.
The country roads are busy as wheat harvest is underway. Like all harvests, the farmers are anxiously getting to reap their rewards for all their efforts and costs of planting their crops. Though wheat harvest isn't like it used to be, it still is an exciting time. With the larger combines, semi trucks and tractor-pulled grain carts, harvesting moves much faster these days. There isn't as much wheat planted as there used to be. The crops most planted in recent years are corn and soybeans.
Thoughts of wheat harvest in the past brings back memories of my father, Gerald Boyles, who not only farme...
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