[ProtectOurFreedom]

That's The Palouse in eastern Washington and western Idaho...it is an incredibly beautiful land. It was hard to mechanize farming there because of the hilly terrain...early harvesters only worked on flat lands. Smaller combines were invented specifically to harvest wheat in The Palouse. Major crops today are wheat, lentils, peas and rapeseed (canola oil).

[steve86]

I am a just few miles south but use the handle ‘Palousex86’ on other forums. Interesting what you say about the terrain challenges...very hilly and irregular contours. I like Dayton area and just to the east and south in Blue Mountains.

[eartrumpet]

Smaller combines were invented specifically to harvest wheat in The Palouse.

An old friend worked in a tractor repair shop in the midwest when he was younger. He got a job in Spokane for a year doing the same. First day a farmer came in and said he needed a combine part. OK, which model? For the sidehill combine. No really, which model? Sidehill, you don't know what a sidehill combine is? Mister, where I'm from, we don't even have hills.