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18. Feb. 1998 · This book is an important reminder that Great Plains farmers succeed because they apply common sense, hard work, and tenacity to their management of the land."—R. Douglas Hurt, author of American Agriculture: A Brief History "Respect—that's what Harvesting the High Plains is all about. Craig Miner has respect for John Kriss and all the ...
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High Plains Harvesting offers accommodation by means of 4 bunk houses. Food will be provided during harvest, depending where the crew is, its a 50/50 mix of home cooked food or eating out. High Plains Harvesting High Plains Harvesting High Plains Harvesting is a crew we have worked with for a long time and is owned by Ryan & Laura Haffner.
Craig Miner uses the life and career of Cobly, Kansas-based megafarmer John Kriss to make two points. He argues first that, far from being the forbidding desert suggested by the Dust Bowl experience, the High Plains is an area where productive dry-farming of wheat can be undertaken profitably by intelligent and alert producers. And second, he contends that farming is a business to which ...
18. Feb. 1998 · Harvesting the High Plains is the rags-to-riches story of how Kriss applied hard work and common sense to make large-scale farming work under the most adverse conditions. Drawing on correspondence between Kriss and Garvey, it tells how the two men had to make innumerable decisions about the purchase of expensive machinery and of ever larger tracts of land, and how Kriss kept detailed records ...
The Kriss family still works the land, and although their operation is huge, it still depends on traditional family farming values and approaches. Harvesting the High Plains provides keen insights into their special approach to large-scale farming and gives a human face to the faceless statistics of other agricultural studies.
