# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5290 "2025-06-26T23:30:50Z")

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oddly. I’ve gotten used to such diversions even when I ask specifics. You should dig up my post from years ago about what the biggest field was. It was a shit-show or responses.

> [@USA's Largest cultivated field?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usas-largest-cultivated-field/741786):
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> Illinois is great farmland. I see miles and miles of open cultivated crop land. It got me thinking. Do we know and what is the country’s largest crop field? I’ll define it as: must be cultivated as in plowed, seeded and harvested regularly, so pasture and hayfields do not qualify Defined boundaries such as fencing, ditches, rivers, roads, end or irrigation line,etc. So essentially the farmer has to stop activities in the one field, and go to the next. I would allow fields that just gradu…

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