Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Juniper Kerr has joined "The Times" staff as a photographer. Her first assignment was to photograph this summer's harvest with her unique sense of movement and light. She visited the Northwest Grain Growers Turner elevator and the Zuger, Fortner, and Thorn crews working harvest. Kerr said she has been photographing her whole life, beginning when she was three or four years old. She was given a camera by her mother and used it to produce her own postcards to sell. After moving to...
DAYTON - Like every industry, farming has changed significantly through the new technologies. Last year, "The Times" accompanied local wheat farmer Deborah Fortner to a field she was analyzing using a spray drone. Fortner won a DJI multispectral surveying drone at a Spray Drone End User Conference. She learned how to fly, land, and use the software for the new drone-using it to analyze the fields she farms. Though she saw the potential, she found the technology lacked the functionality that she...
DAYTON - Working harvest is a shared experience for many students and alums from Dayton, Waitsburg, and Prescott High Schools. There are jobs at the elevators, driving trucks, bankout wagons, and combines. Most kids will come back each year, building skills and confidence. Sage Kilts began working harvest for Deb Fortner when she was 16. Fortner was a horse trainer for her family, and when she asked Sage to work for her, she jumped at the chance. She started as a bankout wagon driver shuttling...
