It seems that farms and motorists in the Southeast Saskatchewan can share the highway quite well. 

"I want to compliment people in southeast Saskatchewan," explained Edgar Hammermeister, a local producer, explained while he was busy with his own harvest, "for the time that I do spend on the highways, they are very courteous." 

"There is still fair amount of traffic and between holiday and industry work, everyone seems to be cooperating and sharing the highway really well."

"Certainly the scale of the equipment has increased dramatically. Farmers need to take it upon themselves to move at appropriate times of the day and make sure that their equipment width is meeting provincially requirements. Combine headers are 40 foot wide and and that's when you have to go into trailer mode and share the highway a little better."

There are some other drawbacks to driving such large equipment. 

"The big equipment certainly does consume the fuel but it is also highly productive, acres per hour getting a tremendous amount of work done."

"The farms are larger so more acres are being covered with less equipment so it's a back and forth that way. It's not very often that a farm is over equipped, so you're always trying to push it. And that's where guys have to be a little more mindful."

"Right now we have really good harvest weather but sometimes we'll be pushing the hours, you get a little tired and with big wide equipment accidents can happen."

"What they do suggest is from time to time, get out of the combine, stretch your legs and it's probably worthwhile to wander around and look at things and have the opportunity to do some preventative maintenance before something major happens."

As for his harvest, he explained that he finished harvesting his winter wheat two weeks ago and is busy with the lentils now.

"The yields, I'm happy to say, has been a little above expectation. But I hasten to add that right close to Alameda we've had a little moisture than some of the other areas in the southeast particularly in the west so I'm mindful to be pleased with the blessing I have here but you don't have to go very far and farmers are suffering very badly with the lack of moisture."

"I just want to wish everyone safe harvesting. With the dry conditions,  be mindful that it doesn't take much of a spark to get a field fire going and that guys take precautions and have some equipment and tools on hand just in case."

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