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Clouded over for the first time in a month or so: farmers better hurry.

It's wheat harvest in the Palouse—you have to see this country to understand it: towering, rolling, completely unfenced hills of loess that grows wheat and lentils like nobody's business. In the old days they used a 40-horse hitch to get a plow or harvester up those slopes. Now it's specialized tractors with independent suspension, and if you want to get somewhere in a hurry in the Palouse—detour through Idaho. When equipment is moving on those two-lane roads, you just wait for a town or a 3-lane hillclimb to pass.


 

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Published on August 19, 2011 07:40
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