RUNNING any farm is a big job, as Mick Pole knows. He helps run a collaborative farming enterprise, but he still sees it as a small part of his big sky vision for farming in general.

Since 2015 he and neighbour and friend Jim Wakefield have been jointly farming 6000ha of Mallee cropping country in a 330mm rainfall zone at Walpeup, after previously farming with his parents.

The property has wheat...