The Harvest Run

The Story...

For three generations, the Beckley family of Colby, Kansas has made their living harvesting crops for farmers in the Great Plains region of the United States. Every spring, the Beckleys and their crew hit the road with a fleet of equipment, following the ripening crops from Texas all the way to the Canadian border, on the little-known Harvest Run, a demanding seven-month journey that is essential to producing America's annual yield of wheat and corn.

This is the story of the Beckleys' struggle to hold onto their way of life while facing the seemingly insurmountable hardships of economics, Mother Nature, and the changing American work ethic.

The Trailer

Production Stills

Harvest Run production still: combines in a line across a wheat field, with a convoy of grain trucks Harvest Run production still: a combine and grain cart harvesting wheat Harvest Run production still: a John Deere combine unloading grain Harvest Run production still: a family watches children climb on a John Deere header Harvest Run production still: two men talk in a stubble field beside pickup trucks Harvest Run production still: a man in a cap and a white field Harvest Run production still: an older couple smiling together Harvest Run production still: two men laughing beside a combine Harvest Run production still: a man sitting on the ladder of a combine Harvest Run production still: a man using a radio in a combine cab