The last time we visited with custom combiners Tracy and Jim Zeorian, they were new additions to the MacDon family, having purchased their first MacDon product only two years previous (Wheatfield Nomads, Performance Magazine, Fall 2013). At the time, the veteran custom combiners were one of the dwindling number of single combine operations working North America’s wheat harvest, and among the last on the harvest run to switch to MacDon FlexDrapers.
A lot of jobs require some travel – but that typically doesn't mean being sent across the world for seven months at a time.
That's the life Kenan van Onselen, Kyle Bradford and Hendrik Potgieter have lived the past few years. They head to North America from their home of South Africa to work the harvest for Braathen Harvesting, a nearly 50-year-old custom harvesting operation that deals mostly in small grains, soybeans, corn, and sunflowers.
When combine driver Michael Austin states that his hometown is Te Awamutu, he’s well aware you’ve likely never heard of it before, and even more than that, may not be able to pronounce it, either.
"You want me to spell that?" the 24-year-old asks with a laugh over the phone.
"I really, really want one."
That's how North Dakota farmer Bill Streifel summed up his first experience using MacDon's all new C Series Corn Header. He'd had the opportunity to try MacDon's first ever corn head as part of an extensive demo program across the Northern US and Canada last fall.
Providing a striking contrast between traditional and modern farming methods, Billy Garnett’s Kentucky farm lies along the Kentucky–Tennessee border, just over an hour’s drive northwest of Nashville.
The traditional methods can be found in the 350 acres (142 hectares) of tobacco Garnett grows in partnership with one of his nephews.
GOOD MORNING,