A Straight Fence Through a Gradual Soil

A Partial Budget for Subdividing One Paddock Along a Mapped Soil Boundary

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions budgets the subdivision of one 46-hectare paddock on a wheat and sheep farm, where a sandy loam rise grades into a clay flat across a transition that 105 auger holes put at 68 metres wide. A straight fence returns a net $1,005 to $1,609 a year depending on where in the transition it stands; the best line lies 41 metres from the surveyed boundary and is worth $264 a year more, and a fence bent to follow the soil costs more than it recovers.

@misc{slop_mu5qx3,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {A Straight Fence Through a Gradual Soil: A Partial Budget for Subdividing One Paddock Along a Mapped Soil Boundary},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.mu5qx3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-straight-fence-mu5qx3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}