HUSA Jul 14 2026 - Slick Sanders

Co-host David Woodruff has Slick Sanders on the phone and they're talking about a whole other problem that harvesters are facing this year. "And weeds started growing. We've never seen weeds in this country. So we've actually cut lots of weeds this time, in a few patches, and there's still some wheat left here, but and only half our acres are there because part of it is zeroed out from freeze and drought. And then up close to Albin, we've got a job up that way that he's planning to cut pretty much all his acres, maybe other than one field that they took out. So we ought to be peeling out of here probably Saturday morning. It's been showering up there, so we're not in too big a hurry. Just kind of let it dry out. But he said it's supposed to be dry weather after that, so maybe it'll be some good cutting weather next week. But the weeds are growing up there too, you know, so it's just a problem this year."   So you'll be going to where?    "To Burns, Wyoming, up by Albin."    When you get those poor little wheat plants get droughted out and froze out, and then you get enough rain to fill and you get a little bit of seed, is there such a thing as that seed has got a toughness to it that will really produce better, or is that a pipe dream?    "A little stress is good for wheat. You know, sometimes it can help wheat. It can only take so much. You've got to have some help from the good Lord up there and some rains to make it happen, and they just didn't have it. But you know, we feel like getting 40 bushels here in St. Francis is almost the same scenario as on a good year making 80, 90 bushels, because I mean, there's a lot of people that was cutting 15 bushel wheat here."   U.S. Custom Harvester Slick Sanders.    That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report.