WELLINGTON? Any other year would find custom cutter Dave Hermesch a busy man, joining the hundreds of other agricultural nomads whose combines follow the ripening crops of the wheat harvest. But the ...

WICHITA — Custom cutters are having no problem this season finding enough people to fill out their crews as wheat harvest gets under way.Pam Shmidl, operations manager for the industry group U.S.

Myron Eberts stood on the platform of his red Case IH combine with a matching red t-shirt—the only color shirt he ever wears— blue jeans, scruffy gray beard, and his baseball hat adorned with the logo ...