Pasture size swag mistake

Awnry Abe · #1 09/05/12, 10:02 PM

I would like to leave this breadcrumb for my fellow newbs. I *almost* made the mistake of buying too much seed because I was taking a casual guess at how much acreage I was planting. I have a 40 acre pasture that has a wee bit of woods. I had the nagging feeling that I better go check it out before I ordered. I used one of those google maps acreage calculators. Turns out my wee bit of woods was 12 acres. Almost every 40 acre chunk that I have has some sort of non-pasture bite taken out of it.

myersfarm · #2 09/05/12, 11:29 PM

your in Missouri it is somewhat hard to make a map but this site is by Missouri Cares map room

CARES Interactive Maps

myersfarm · #3 09/05/12, 11:30 PM

yes it shocked me also how much it takes out of a 40 acre field just 33 feet X 1 /4 mile long is a acre

LibertyWool · #4 09/06/12, 06:43 AM

Web Soil survey is a nice tool to use also. It will give you your soil types for a given area that you can draw on the map. It will also give you the total acreage.

Web Soil Survey - Home