Horsham to Echuca

We took off from Horsham following the GPS that lead us along small country roads towards Echuca. 

We were traveling along the huge wheat fields again and the farmers were harvesting.
 We stopped by the roadside to photograph a combined harvester.
 The farmer stopped and invited us in for a ride.
 This was an amazing experience as the whole process is very automated. A GPS did the steering and other technology monitored everything from the moisture in the wheat to how many tones per acre etc etc  .
The Farmer was a third generation farmer and was very happy. This was the best crop in his life time returning 2 tonnes to the acre at a price of $360 per tonne. He has 6000 acres meaning a pay day of $4,000,000 and he also has 2500 sheep.
It was good to see a farmer not whinging! He said they were debt free and had just bought the neighbours farm so now he had something to pay off.
The Combined harvester was worth $500,000 to replace and is worth every penny. The machine does the harvesting, spitting out the wheat into a big bin on a tractor with the chaff being left on the ground for the sheep to eat at a later stage . The tractor offloads onto moveable silos. Trucks were then coming and transporting the wheat to the main depots.

We stopped for lunch in a rest area and discovered that the tow-bar was in a very bad condition. Graeme needed some wire to make up for the broken welds and turning around he found exactly what he was looking for a few meters away. Needless to say we thanked God and prayed before we continued our journey. 

One broken part, amongst many!!