2007-06-02 09:12:59 · 8 answers · asked by colinpeter 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
What country are you from? In UK to the best of my knowledge they are fields of corn, as corn is grown there. Hay is the dried stems of crops or grasses, heard of meadows of course, but Hay meadows no. Are they just plants grown to produce hay, i.e. fallow fields?
2007-06-02 19:25:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hay meadows tend to be wet bottom ground that can be cut and baled as hay. But they can also be farmed as in tilled and planted to corn. So someone might refer to a hay meadow as a corn field or a food plot as hunters call them who buy land to hunt on.
2007-06-04 22:16:08 · answer #2 · answered by NOVA50 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A field is an open land area free of woods and buildings enclosed for cultivation or pasture. Middle English, from Old English feld; akin to Old High German feld meaning field. This concept of enclosure comes to us from the English Enclosure Acts from 1750 to 1860, which disbarred the common people from their traditional use of grazing their animals on open fields when not planted with crops. The animals were fenced out of fields after this. With no land of their own to keep animals farm workers could not keep the animals they needed to subsist. This lead to the migration into cities for work. This coincided with the rise of industry from the 1780s to the peak in 1830 - 1840s giving people a new mode of existence. .
A meadow is an area predominantly in grass. Especially an area or tract of moist low-lying usually level grassland along a river. The first hay was collected from flood plains along rivers so the terms became synonymous. Middle English medwe, from Old English m[AE]dwe
2007-06-02 17:13:51 · answer #3 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because corn is carefully planted and cultivated in rows, but hay is simply left to grow.
Although, it may just be a regional thing, because I've heard them called hay fields, too.
2007-06-02 16:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by AtsiLass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A meadow is a field where grass is grown. Hay is grass.
2007-06-02 17:26:04 · answer #5 · answered by des r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corn is a vegetable, vegetables are picked.
Hay is just awkward grass that gets Reaped, acreage of grass,trees,are meadows.
Acreage with Fruit,Vegetables are Fields.
I am guessing here, but it makes sense.
2007-06-02 16:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry but here they are hay fields...depends on where you live i guess
2007-06-02 19:06:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Idk=]
2007-06-02 16:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋