Western Nebraska—We’ve had 10 consecutive days of harvesting out west. The yields have been 30 to 60 bushels per acre. The test weights have been 58 to 62 pounds per bushel and the protein 12 to 14%.

This summer I packed up my family and drove over the mountains and over the prairie to the farm for harvest. Returning to western Kansas where my great-grandparents homesteaded, my mother's parents ...