HUSA Aug 27 2026 – Austin Wakkinen

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

We’re talking to Austin Wakinen, Brady, Montana. You work at the, what elevator is it, at Collins? Yep, the Collins Grain Elevator. What company does that? Mountain View Co-op.

Let’s continue that conversation about the storage of the crop at the elevator. How do you hold the tarps down for the wind that we have? So the tarps they have, oh gosh, I’ve never counted them. It’s just, it’s a bazillion tarps, but so we strap them down and we go around and we cut the tarp and we fold it up and we board it down to two by eights that are anchored to the ground.

We try to get three or four good rolls per section and it’s a, it’s a two by four. It’s just a two by four. We lay two by fours around.

We go around, we cut the tarp and then we anchor it down and they’ve got, oh gosh, eight-inch lag bolts. So that holds, that holds them down when the wind comes over. It doesn’t pause a vacuum and lift the tarp up.

It’s able to be held down. For, for the most part, for the most part. Well, that’s great.

Well, we thank you for this information. You have a good one. Yeah, you too.

Thanks. Bye-bye. All right, bye-bye.

That was Austin Wakinen with our co-host David Woodruff. We’ll be back again with more harvest updates tomorrow. That’s it for today’s Harvest USA Report.

You can catch these interviews on HarvestUSAReport.com. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.