Most measurements around here came about (and persist) prior to the availability of GPS accuracy. Considering topography, measurement skills, available equipments, and attitude to get it right or not, a lot of measurements were best guesses, or following old (wagon trail) roads, or somebody't fence row and all that. Most country roads are built along property boundaries so there are a lot of sharp S curves in the roads and all.
The last acreage I bought the owner and I paced off the dimensions and took them to the title company where the official document was prepared. It's still a matter of record at the county clerk's office and current land sales are GPS positioned off these recorded deeds......happening this minute....marker posts with Fluorescent Orange flags are everywhere, several surveyed off my property lines. Nobody has come to me and said my fences were in the wrong place.
Hay is sold by the bale. No scales handy, nearest is 20 miles and does grain only. Besides individual bales vary due to numerous variances so you'd have to weigh each, or load a truck and weigh it before, back to the farm, load it, back to the scale, back to the buyer's place....we just don't go to that trouble.
A guy needs pasture work done, it's not "measure and do by the acre", it's "what would you charge to........." sort of thing.
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