HUSA Sep 28 2026 – Shorty Kulhanek

Welcome to the Harvest USA Report. I’m Brian Hale.

An original production of Howard Hale Broadcasting, now expanded throughout North America. Co-host David Woodruff has Shorty Kolhonic. McGargled Texas Custom Harvester on the phone.

Let’s check in. And where in North Dakota are you? Cuyahoga, North Dakota, 45 miles east of Williston. My neighbor said rye is forgiving.

You can do anything wrong and still get a good drop of rye. Yeah, correct. Once you get ahead of the weeds with canola, then that canopy just shades everything.

Right. In this country, we swath so much of our canola. And then the wind comes up.

Blows it into the fence. Oh, yeah. Yep.

That’s an issue, too. Yeah. Now, shelling had been a problem.

And so that’s why they swathed a little early. But now we have some shatter-resistant varieties. So, I take it that you’re working on the shatter-resistant varieties.

Correct. The genetics have changed so much. It holds in there pretty good.

They had some high winds earlier in the season. It just blew the pods off the plant. It didn’t shatter.

They’re not flared open. They just blew the pods off. Blew the pods off.

Yeah. Now, I have seen a hailstorm come through and a stone will hit a branch and break it off. And then a week later, that broken-off branch has healed up and started growing back up.

So, you’ve got a lot of S’s. So, when the wind blows pods off, is it the same way as the hail? It’ll recover and flower and put another pod on? No. No, it’s too late for that.

Too late. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That was our co-host, David Woodruff, with custom harvester Shorty Kolhonic from McGargle, Texas. That’s going to do it for today’s Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening, and may God bless.

I’m Brian Hale.