How farmers get their fields plowed straight?

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How do farmers also have their fields plowed so straight for so far? Do they use GPS guidance somehow? And if they use some sort of tech, were they able to plow fields this straight back in the day?

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So we are the last of a dying breed. We have mining/construction company and we’re a small to midsized cash crop farm. Our tractors and construction equipment have the capability to have integrated GPS but we still go by “feel” on our dozers. Our planters are done by eye then once we get the rows established the planter has mechanical arms that swing down and cut a marker line in the field that corresponds to half the width of the planter. The we turn around and follow the marker line rinse and repeat.

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