Grateful For A Life On The Road

For three South African custom harvesters, life on the road provides invaluable experiences that these young farmers wouldn't otherwise get.

A lot of jobs require some travel – but that typically doesn't mean being sent across the world for seven months at a time.

That's the life Kenan van Onselen, Kyle Bradford and Hendrik Potgieter have lived the past few years. They head to North America from their home of South Africa to work the harvest for Braathen Harvesting, a nearly 50-year-old custom harvesting operation that deals mostly in small grains, soybeans, corn, and sunflowers.