English: Farmland seen from an airliner. The circles you can see are irrigated crops being grown, they are called pivots. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot. A circular area centered on the pivot is irrigated, often creating a circular pattern in crops when viewed from above.
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2007-08-26 20:25 Mrwrite 500×374× (90904 bytes) Farmland seen from an airliner. The round farms are a water conservation effort.