Random Question

[hells_half_acre]

Ok, I was cruising google maps the other day, and I came across all these fields that were in circles in the states. I mean...like, the crops were in circles. Like pies. I looked up in Canada, and we have them too. It's like someone scattered green coins across the country.

I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was a particular crop that people like to grow in circles, or if some people just liked to have circular fields. Where I grew up, people just grew things in rows...but then, mostly everyone just grows corn there. And in New Brunswick, everybody just grows potatoes.

It might be a pretty stupid question, but I am not a farmer - so I'm honestly just curious.

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Ha, I was the same way when I was a teenager. Then university and grad school sort of forced all that stuff out of my head and replaced it with history and languages. :-P

Knowledge is awesome though! Especially when it is seemingly random. ;-)