This year, since the start of last fall, we're having a very dry year and our wheat did not come up as good as it should have.

Throughout the weeks, the last couple of weeks, we could see our wheat is really startin to struggle, its turning brown.

And also normally around November, the wheat will turn brown, it goes in dormancy.

And it's been such a warm year it did not go dormant.

Our wheat was green all year long.

And my dad, who's 82 years old, has never seen that happen before.

So we're not sur what our wheat is going to do.

We are at my family farm.

My grandpa bought this place in 1946.

My dad's lived here since then, so he's lived here for eighty years.

It's very difficult now than it was the past to have farm full time.

You have to have a lot of acres.

I work a full time job.

My wife says my off farm job is to support my farming habit.

We are a dry land farm.

Small grain farm.

Primarily wheat and prozomillet.

We have seven kids.

Oldest is 17.

Youngest is six years old.

We are fourth generation.

So my kids are really the fifth generation, Come to the back.

and they all pitch in to help.

They help package our wheat.

We sell direct to consumer, help us clean the wheat.

It's one big family operation.

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I'm scared about the harvest.

If we're going to have a harvest or not, or if we're going to have a partial harvest.

So without the rain allowing the wheat to get established, you have these bare patches in the field.

And that is an invitation for weeds which take up the, precious moisture that we d have in the soil and nutrients that are in the soil.

So it's just so dr that we didn't come up and that that was, effect of the dry weather, the wheat dying.

And then we go with the chisel to bring up the clods of dirt Chiseling is it makes furrows in the ground.

The trigger points are about one foot apart, and it goes deep into the ground, and it makes clods out ther to keep the dirt from blowing.

The wind will stop right there where I chiseled because there's big clumps of dir rather than sand and soil there.

it reduces the erosion, But if we don't get moisture soon, we would be going all summe long without anything out there.

And every wind is going to keep on blowing that dirt.

I think that will only hav about 50% of our normal yields.

And I hope that we do have 50%.