Hunters and soil scientists may seem like an odd pairing, but they have at least one thing in common: They know and appreciate that nature has an aversion to straight lines.Hunters spend a lot of time in the great outdoors, getting an up-close look at the variability Mother Nature molds upon our landscape. Soil scientists spend time looking at the curvy contour lines that represent the transition from one soil type to another, and their academic training is about the "hows and whys" of soil formation over the centuries.Unlike nature, humans have perfected the action of making straight lines. From the early days of the very first mechanical planters and "cultivator blight," the straightness of rows was something that created neighborhood envy. Nowadays, auto-steer has made it easy.
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