Crop/Field Layout

The irrigation pipe travels in a circle, and will leave circular tracks in the field - even tho the crop itself is planted in normal straight rows.

--->Paul

Thanks Paul,

You are right. Here is a bad picture of our system that I took last fall.

You can see the actual "farming" goes on normally underneath of the silly thing.

Allan

Found a little better picture of the goofy gizmo.

It would make sense with the center pivot irrigation system. Seems like you'd get dizzy when harvesting the center of it 8~)

Rick,

Is this what you are talking about?

They are center pivot irrigation systems and believe me, very few of them are "planted" in a circle.

They appear that way from the air because the machine provides water in a circular fashion. The most common size is 132 irrigated acres.

Allan

I doubt if those fields were planted in a circular fashion; just looks that way from the air. We've gotta have water out here to make it, but most fields are planted in the usual manner.

There are so many holes poked in the ground here in western NE, that most NRD districts have placed a hold on any more new wells in fear of the water table dropping any more. :>(

I always thought that farming without irrigation would really be a tough go, but now I'm thinking of buying a half section of dryland just to scratch around on....go figure. Hmmmmm

Allan