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<blockquote data-quote="Blaithin" data-source="post: 5743508" data-attributes="member: 5764"><p>No hedges, trees or ponds has nothing to do with farming. It's the prairies. That's what it looks like.</p><p></p><p>Lethbridge is known for hosting it's multitudes of wind turbines because down there all you get is the wind off the mountains. There isn't a shrub or a knoll for miles. On the prairies you rarely see hills, instead we have coulees and you can't see coulees well unless you're on the edge of them.</p><p></p><p>Probably why the economy of scale thing is easier to manage here than it is to conceive of in the UK. When most of your fields are squares with wide open access points, no hedges or yards to move around and the size is generally 160 acres and up, no piddling around with 20 acres here and there... it's much easier to get in and go. The guys that have fields grouped together in sections get way more done in a day than the guys that have to jump field to field to field. Transporting the equipment is the biggest use of time, if you can block farm your economy is going to improve tenfold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blaithin, post: 5743508, member: 5764"] No hedges, trees or ponds has nothing to do with farming. It's the prairies. That's what it looks like. Lethbridge is known for hosting it's multitudes of wind turbines because down there all you get is the wind off the mountains. There isn't a shrub or a knoll for miles. On the prairies you rarely see hills, instead we have coulees and you can't see coulees well unless you're on the edge of them. Probably why the economy of scale thing is easier to manage here than it is to conceive of in the UK. When most of your fields are squares with wide open access points, no hedges or yards to move around and the size is generally 160 acres and up, no piddling around with 20 acres here and there... it's much easier to get in and go. The guys that have fields grouped together in sections get way more done in a day than the guys that have to jump field to field to field. Transporting the equipment is the biggest use of time, if you can block farm your economy is going to improve tenfold. [/QUOTE]
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