Wagner's Irrigation Inc

About Wagner's Irrigation Inc

By December the center pivots Wagner's Irrigation Inc spent the growing season setting and repairing stand parked and frozen in fields all around Holdrege, and the crew that keeps that water moving in summer keeps the driveways moving in winter instead. Phelps County opens up flat in every direction once the corn is off, and a plowed driveway out among those idle pivots can be the only clear line for miles once the fields go white. The crew runs the same farm-to-farm routes it drives all season, only now the truck carries a blade instead of parts, clearing lanes so a grain truck or a school bus can still get through. Closer to town, the canals sit drained and quiet for the season, a skin of ice clinging to whatever water is still pooled in the ditches. Under a clear, cold night the plowed lanes cut straight black lines across white ground, farm to farm, all the way back into Holdrege.