Big snow, big header

Scott Day directed me to two great photos. Scott farms near Dand, Manitoba, my birthplace, and he's the diversification specialist for Manitoba Agriculture in Melita, Man. 

Scott got the first photo from Gary Bolduc, another Dand-area farmer. Scott writes: "It was taken near Golden, B.C., and explains why the trains aren’t getting through right now."

The second photo is from The Weekly Times, an Australian newspaper. Here is the lead from the article by reporter Fiona Myers:

"This is one case where big is definitely better. When it comes to headers, there's no bigger combination than that put together by Tasmanian contractors Radford Harvesting.

"They have custom built a (61-feet header), believed to be one of the biggest in the world, and mounted it on a Claas Lexion 600 combine."