“Rather than buying a machine that’s going to sit around for 11 months, they hire us,” said Tracy Zeorian with Zeorian Harvesting & Trucking, a third-generation custom harvester based in Manley, ...

The prairie’s nomads — for-hire workers who bring in the harvest — are tuning up their combines and semitrailers for the start of the season, a circuit that runs from May through November and ...