With a bumper crop, favourable harvest weather at a premium, and a massive investment in land, crop inputs, equipment and manpower, these Claas combines have to harvest a lot. There are thousands upon thousands of acres to do. Even stopping to unload at the end of a row is a luxury that is not tolerated. The combines never stop as the grain buggy pulls alongside and receives the discharge from the moving combine.
The buggy forwards its load to waiting trucks out on the road, discharges it, and hurryies back to the field for another load from the combine. A fleet of trucks ferries the harvested crop to storage where it is unloaded and if necessary, conditioned by dryers to insure proper storage..
Last week we saw a threshing bee. Here is the other end of the spectrum. A massively productive, mechanized food production industry which is the reason as North Americans we enjoy a higher standard of living and lower food prices than the rest of the world.
