Five decades of change for Lamona farmer

The following is reprinted from Ventures, the newsletter of AgVentures NW, LLC. The interview of Tom Wilson, of Lamona, and article were done by Burke Perry of VistaComm, an advertising and marketing company which makes the newsletter.

From cutting wheat 14 feet at a time to doing a day’s worth of harvesting in an hour, Tom Wilson has seen a lot of change in his 54 years of farming.“We’ve always hauled into the elevator at Lamona,” Tom recalls. “I was 13 the first time I hauled a load in and was driving the combine at 14. You could get an agricultural permit to drive a truck at 12 back then if...