ORIGINAL: keyshunter

MGH PA,
I assume that you mean back and forth as I described above and not an actual circle. (Although a circle would be a neat trick, especially as you got close to the center.)Plowing one way is actually much simpler. You make your first pass and then just follow the furrow on succeeding passes. The shape of the field doesn't matter. Even my ex-wife could do it.An advantage to one way plowing is that you do not have to worry about finding the middle furrow when you plow in, or finishing the middle furrow when you plow out.And, if the field is not rectangular, you do not have to drive over and compactthe newly plowed ground when you do your point rows. Also in hilly ground,when you work the soil with a disc,harrow, etc.it always moves down hill. By plowing the soil up hill you are essentially "putting it back".

In all honesty, in a food plot, it is not a big deal. But, in large fields, the advantages of one way plowing are so significant that quite early on savvy farmers were using right and left plows, and later rollover plows. In addition to what is mentioned above, itis far less time (and fuel) consuming to turn around at the end of the furrow and start back than to drive across the end of a wide field.