On The Cutting Edge

When I interviewed Jack McCaw re- cently about the construction of the new 4MC shop off Highway 124, he spoke about the need for more sophisticated equipment to repair today's combines and other farm vehicles.

"You don't fix it with haywire and sticky tape any- more," he observed.

Then he went off on a tan- gent about the increasing use of technology in wheat farm- ing itself and explained how growers now use the signals from satellites to guide their work in the field. I was im- mediately fascinated. During the past few years of putting out The Times' Harvest Edition, I've written about vario...