TOO many times, like too many Mallee farmers, Ron Hards stood staring out his front window or was hunkered down in the machinery shed, watching his paddocks blow by on their way to points unknown but well beyond the fences of his property.

When you live in marginal country you need everything to work, on time, every time, to make a real go of it.

And of course it doesn’t.

That’s why it’s ...