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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Farm Geometry

Finney County, Kansas as seen from ASTER

*The acronym is:  Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer.

Lovely photo.    Though I've always been a town or city dweller, I do enjoy agriculture and being near it.  Enjoy seeing crop growth, tractors and combines in the fields, harvesting, etc.  I live in a fertile valley which grows an abundance of chile peppers, onions, lettuce and cotton primarily.  It's always nice driving past the many green and straight rows (whether here or years ago, in the Midwest).  Freshly-harvested onions lying on the ground beneath the warm autumn Sun...now that's a wonderful aroma. 

--Cindy

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,431

Re: Farm Geometry

What no crop circles

You bring up an interesting point thou with how much of each crop food to plant. The need to understand growing cycles for each and the mineral depletion that each causes over sucessive years being planted in the same places.