Kingfisher County farms are getting a “clean shaven” look as the 2021 wheat harvest rushes to a successful close.

Combines have clipped many wheat fields that had been covered with the developing crop since last fall.

Harvest is later than normal in the county due to a wetter and cooler spring season.

Elevator operators considered the crop a good one and harvest a successful one as harvesters looked ahead to the finish line.

Many harvested fields have already received one tillage operation as farmers went in with tillage equipment right behind combines to preserve moisture remaining in the soil.

Okarche CHS elevator and Okarche Grain and Feed elevator were the first to proclaim the end of harvest, or at least it is in sight.

“We’re done,” said a spokesperson for Okarche Grain and Feed eight miles west of Okarche.

It was a good harvest – good quality and good yields all the way, Okarche Grain and Feed Manager Gary Altizer reported.

A CHS-Okarche elevator spokesman said Friday, the end of harvest was “getting close” although wheat continued to come in.

Cashion Grain and Feed Elevator’s harvest was all over the board Friday with some producers finished and some hardly started, mostly due to the cooler than normal and wetter than normal spring.

Randall Varnell, manager of the Wheeler Brothers Grain Co. elevator in Kingfisher said farmers were hurrying Friday to wrap up the harvest ahead of forecasted rain on Saturday.

Varnell called the harvest above average – on a par with last year’s crop.

Yields and quality remained consistently high throughout.

Hennessey’s CHS elevator still had several farmers cutting wheat on Friday.

Harvesters with their own combines, which comprises most Hennessey producers, were continuing to harvest Friday.