Volume 6 , Issue 22

Hot Temps, Gusty Winds and Fire

Besides the hot temps, gusty winds and fire of last weekend, Alva hit a May heat record with temperatures reaching to 104 degrees in this neck of the woods, in NW Oklahoma. We don't usually get that warm until July/August during the "Dog Days" of Summer. Our normal temperatures usually range around the 80s. The beginning of the week brought thunderstorms, tornadoes and warnings to other parts of the north central, south central parts of Oklahoma. The only thing we felt in the NW corner was the coolness of the 80s, humidity and Oklahoma winds. The winds, sunshine and warm temperatures have sure turned the waving green fields of wheat into amber waves of grain the last couple of weeks in the NW Corner of Oklahoma. BUT... the traffic of the combine crews really didn't start showing up until the latter part of this week.

If you were traveling East of Alva on highway 64 and south on the Dacoma Blacktop road towards Dacoma, you might have seen a few combines, harvesters and crews starting to gather in a few fields -- testing, cutting strips of wheat for testing -- then waiting just for the right moment to harvest the rest of the crop. Some farmers have been baling their wheat crops for hay this year. With the price of fuel, fertilizer, harvesting and the price of wheat, it doesn't make much of a profit -- except maybe for the bankers, backers of the farmers, harvesters. Most the pictures were taken around Dacoma (at the Old Small Place) and along the Dacoma blacktop road. While you are traveling those rural country roads, watch those intersections for farm trucks, wheat trucks, and harvest crews as they take their wheat to the Dacoma Co-op Grain elevators and other co-op elevators in the NW corner of Oklahoma. It's just beginning to get into the swing of wheat harvest around here the latter part of the week. It's going to be a busy week next week as the 2004 harvest continues.

Besides harvest beginning and business buildings destroyed by fire, the gas prices in NW Oklahoma on Friday before Memorial weekend showed prices at the pump in Alva at $1.99 -- $1.85 at the pump near Enid, Oklahoma. How's the gas prices in your area?

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