On Jul 27, 7:58*pm, dpb wrote:
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Just out of curiosity, why do you need accuracy in plot layout to a
tenth of an acre on an 80-100 acre plot? *That's .1% accuracy, which
seems extreme for common agri plot sizing.

That's consistent w/ FSA measurements for compliance; of course, they
have their USDA-issued devices that I've no idea what cost. *If there's
an overage, one can be penalized so it is advantageous to be accurate.


It's also consistent with big govt stupidity. There is no rational
reason that any plots need to be measured to .1% accuracy for any govt
program. One percent would be more than enough. But it's what you
get when you have idiot bureaucrats making up whatever rules they feel
like.



It didn't use to be so much an issue before the GPS-based surveys and
4-wheelers; now they monitor much more closely since have the facility
to do so as compared when they had to use the old measuring wheel or chain.