This year, a young girl put in 1000 working hours on her combine harvester, embarking on an insane endeavor.

It is impossible to decide whether a young farmhand in America has embarked on a mad adventure or a well-thought-out enterprise. The United States covers an area 106 times larger than Hungary, so the scales and dimensions there are often incomprehensible to us. This is also the case with agriculture, where the American agricultural sector is characterized by an astounding level of technical development and specialization compared to domestic conditions. In our country, it is essentially unimaginable for a contractor to spend an entire season solely harvesting, yet in the USA this is considered standard practice. Since the country is vast, crops ripen at different times in different zones, allowing harvesters to travel the countryside in a predetermined order and perform their services. Young Eleanor Gilbert had just graduated but already knew that she would take on the country to provide assistance to farmers in need. This year, she completed a 3,800-mile (6,000-kilometer) ...