A DAY OF HARVEST

Our good friends Morgan & Andrew Schauerhamer are farmers and invited us out to see how the process of wheat farming happens. It was the coolest!
They farm thousands of acres. Most of it is either wheat or barley but they also farm mint. I know, I know. You are wondering where all the potatoes are...Well turns out they don't farm too many potatoes in Ashton, Idaho. Even though it is the seed potato capital of the world.

The combine goes around and cuts down the wheat. It is amazing, within seconds it has cut the wheat and separated the tares. It stores the wheat in the back and when it is full a tractor comes over with a bin and while the combine continues to harvest and can transfer its load. Very efficient.
It then brings the wheat over to Semi trucks and fills them up with grain and the trucks take it off to the grain silos. A very cool process.

Our friend Andrew was driving this combine and let us go along for a ride.

This is Andrew inside the very high tech combine. Complete with A/C, CD player and touchscreen controls that shows him all kind of fancy stuff.

This is the blade of the combine in action. WAY COOL!

We also headed out and harvested potatoes in a nearby field. We got both Russet and Red potatoes!

Look at that hot girl harvest!!

This is Morgan and their two girls. Leah had a blast picking up the harvested potatoes. All in all it was an awesome adventure. Thanks Morgan & Andrew!!