HUSA Jul 3 2026 – Eric Wolgemuth

Welcome to the Harvest USA Report. I’m Brian Hale. An original production of Howard (0:05) Hale Broadcasting, now expanded throughout North America.

We’re talking to Eric Wohlgemuth, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Right now we’re cutting between Holyoke, Colorado and Julesburg, Colorado.

How is it? Did they get enough rain to make anything?

Well, it’s not very good, but we’re getting more than they expected and I guess that’s a good thing.I was just talking to the elevator guy. I think we’re going to average over 25 here on everything. Some’s over 30 and some’s, you know, 10 or 12.

And then we had a bunch customer that was all, they disastered it all out. Didn’t cut any for her this year. So, we’re just thankful for what we got.

So, was that farmer able to recoup something with the grazing cattle or they’re just nothing there for anything? 

I think for the most part here, there’s hardly anything there and there’s not fences to graze cattle and there just aren’t that many. You know, these guys here don’t, aren’t used to grazing cattle on wheat pasture, so I don’t think that. I’m not saying that some may have done that, but at least our customer that I know about didn’t do it. But I guess the insurance companies, you know, going to help them out.

I guess that’s why they have crop insurance. So, are the kernels filled out? Are they?

Yeah, what we’ve been harvesting has been weighing good. 60 pounds, a little better. And I think that’s what, that’s where the yield’s coming from is it, they must have got some moisture to get it filled. And I think some adjusters have made, have underestimated the yield. I looked at some that was said there was like a couple bushel and I think it would have been better than that.But anyway, it’s just the way it is.