For harvest crews, a long and unpredictable summer

Harvest crews travels hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles over the course of a summer. Their journey often begins in the south, where crops mature with the early warmth. They eventually make their way to Nebraska.

Minnesota native Reed Lundy and his crew of five started cutting in June, somewhere in Oklahoma. Before reaching the panhandle, they worked fields in Kansas. The end of their road will come in North Dakota, up near the Canadian border.

Theirs is a life of hotel rooms, wide open spaces and long, hot days.

"It's not as bad as it use to be, living in trailers and using older equipment...