Kansas Harvest 1

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1. In late June and early July, the Kansas winter wheat turns into "amber waves of grain" and becomes ready to harvest. That is if there is grain left in the field that hasn't been destroyed from a heavy late snow, winds, inadequate rainfall, too much rain, hail, tornadoes, grasshoppers, blight, mold or other diseases.

2. The above machine is called a combine because it combines two processes. It harvests the heads of wheat and threshes the chaff from the grain. When it comes to wheat flour milled, wheat flour milling capacity, and all wheat produced: Kansas consistently ranks first in the nation.