Welker Farms busy harvesting long days, late nights

By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star
Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019 Updated Aug 22, 2019

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Bob Welker finished cutting peas and dumped the peas into the restored truck.

The Welkers finished cutting peas in their two combines. Now it is on to winter wheat.

Bob and Scott work on the grain vac deck.

Guess who is Nick and who is Scott in this photo. The guys don't look any different.

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By SUE ROESLER, The Prairie Star

SHELBY, Mont. – Harvest is in full swing in mid-August across north central Montana, with combines, augers, trucks, and semis cutting and moving the crop from field to truck to bin or elevator.

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