Plane down at Osh. just now.

[GaryM]

No mentions of sections

Or short sections. The farther north you go, the less a perfect grid of one mile sections works. At the latitude of the Idaho farms where I grew up, every so often they threw in a skinnier 600 acre section so they could keep the north-south alignment of the roads

 

[TCABM]

Or short sections. The farther north you go, the less a perfect grid of one mile sections works. At the latitude of the Idaho farms where I grew up, every so often they threw in a skinnier 600 acre section so they could keep the north-south alignment of the roads

Yep. The meridians get closer together the further north you go and vice versa. That whole round earth thing screws with flat math.

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

Yeah, but the actual surface area is greater than 640 acres if it’s got surface undulations, hills, mountains, etc.

 

[GaryM]

Yeah, but the actual surface area is greater than 640 acres if it’s got surface undulations, hills, mountains, etc.

We don’t buy it by surface area.