Harvesting time is the busiest period in the Russian agrarian region and it lasts just for a month or so. Once the crops are ripe, they have just 20 days to harvest it or 30 days if they have a special grain drier. The fields are enormous, but as the schedule is tight, hundreds of combines work in fields day and night, processing 6 square kilometers of area per shift, each of them harvesting 130-160 tones of grain daily. A combine operator gets $1.300 thousand salary a month on the average, and as the work is seasonal he doesn’t earn anything the rest of the year. Each of the working vehicles has air conditioning systems, and with the temperature going above 90 degrees Fahrenheit sitting in the cabin is like sitting in hell
When the grain container id full, the drives goes to the storehouse and unloads the harvested crops – he opens one of the sections and quickly walks away. Once the grain is on the floor, a special loader car picks up what it can gather and the rest of the grain is handpicked by workers. The crops have a lot of dirt, not only various little sticks and husk, but insects as well, so naturally all this is carefully removed by letting grains through separator machines. In the end, the grain is dried and cleaned once again. The final product is packed and driven to mills. That is how we get bread, is there anybody who still believes that it grows in the stores?
