This posting interested me and as I had some spare time on my hands (as well as some paint and a bit of lettuce from a hamburger), I decided to do a bit of further useless research. The date of the area photographed was August 5th 2005 so that puts it towards the end of summer. The altitude of the place varies from 986m on its western boundary to 967m on the eastern side. So the fall is 19m. From 977m on the furthest point north, to 987m on the southern boundary for a fall of 10m.
The area stretches over 10km east to west, or, from west to east depending on which way you are driving, and 6km north to south. In one of the fields there are two distinct sets of wheel tracks that have a width of 3.6m and 6.4m respectively. Also, in one field I noticed quite a scattering of white dots that if they were in the sky and moving, I'd say were suspiciously like UFOs. If it was here in Australia, I'd guess that they were bails of cotton. I notice that that part of Dakota produces corn, soybeans and wheat with no mention of cotton though.
If you have Google Earth installed on you PC, go to the following co-ordinates and check these things out . . . . 43 degrees 31.405N and 102 degrees 43.787W.
See, I told you it was useless research.
