1976: Texas to Canada - 2000 Miles of Harvest

Dale Starks' cutting crew begin their summer wheat trail from Texas in May. By the time it is finished, five months later, the combine harvesters - hundreds of them - will have chewed their way north for nearly 2,000 miles to the Canadian prairies.

'It's 18 hours a day and the only way we know it's Sunday is if one of the crew takes an hour or two out for church.'

Starks started 27 years ago with a bank loan and one small second-hand combine. Today, he and his wife own nine of the ten-ton machines. In an hour, each combine can cut enough wheat to keep the average British family in bread for 40 years. Directed and narrated by Tim Slessor.

Clip taken from A World About Us: Yellow Trail from Texas , originally broadcast on BBC Two, Sunday 25 January, 1976.

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