A combine is seen harvesting wheat from the top of Steptoe Butte on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 near Steptoe, Wash.
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Palouse wheat is seen ready to harvest on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 near Steptoe, Wash.
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Palouse wheat is seen ready to harvest out the window of Shelly Beach’s wheat truck on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, as she hauls a full load of freshly cut grains to an elevator near Oakesdale, Wash.
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Shelly Beach laughs as she drives a truck loaded with wheat on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, to an elevator near Oakesdale, Wash.
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Elevator worker Scott Gortsema during cleans out a grain elevator as he waits for Shelly Beach to bring a load of her family’s wheat to the elevator on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Elevator worker Billy Reid unloads a truck driven by Shelly Beach, containing her family’s wheat on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Elevator worker Billy Reid gives a thumbs-up to Shelly Beach after her truck is empty on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Elevator worker Billy Reid logs the weight of the grain Shelly Beach offloaded on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Shelly Beach smiles at her son Noah as he jumps in the back of her truck to ride to the next load on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Noah Beach rides through the wheat fields in the bed of his mother’s wheat truck on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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The Beach’s truck kicks up dust as it heads rides through the wheat fields for the next load on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Shelly Beach smiles as she she drives her truck through the wheat fields for the next load on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Noah Beach smiles as his uncle Ryan Schu unloads wheat from his combine into Shelly’s truck on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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From the air conditioned cab of his combine, Dick Schu can see his son, Ryan Schu working the fields in a separate combine on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Dick Schu smiles while working the fields in a combine on Monday, August 12, 2013. “Last weekend we had a hydraulic line fail during a thunderstorm,” he said. “I’m just happy things are going our way, now.”
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Dick Schu’s combine cuts wheat on Monday, August 12, 2013.
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Dan Beach watches as his father-in-law Dick Schu fills his wheat truck while harvesting wheat on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash. “Doing this is tharapy for me,” said Dan, who works as a mechanic and handles a lot of customer service for his company.
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Dick Schu runs his combine as the sun sets while harvesting wheat on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash.
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Dick Schu runs his combine as the sun sets while harvesting wheat on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash.
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Ryan Schu looks over to his father Dick Schu as they unload their combines into a wheat truck on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash.
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Dan Beach drives a truck without headlights down a private road shortly after sunset on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash. The truck’s lights failed just before the last load was fully in the truck and made for a tricky run back to the family property for the night.
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Dan Beach walks across his father-in-law’s property from his headlight-less wheat truck to his car after a long day working the fields on Monday night, August 12, 2013, near Oakesdale, Wash. In the morning he, or antoher member of the family will drive the truck to the grain elevator to start the daily harvest cycle anew.
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