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Agritourism

Crop Mazes

NC Crop Mazes
The best time of year to visit mazes in North Carolina is the
Fall season when crops are at there full growth in height. Below a maze in North Carolina and how they are made.

Denton Farm, Denton, NC Davidson County

Volmer Farm, Bunn, NC
Franklin County

Bowman Farm, Jilian, NC
Gilford County

Ken's Produce & Garden Center Garner, NC
Wake County

Mathis Farm, Willison, NC
Wilkes County

 

Precision Agriculture is applied to the creation of crop mazes which are popular agritourism attractions. Many mazes have been constructed by growers using an effective but time consuming and expensive process of manual measurement and layout in the field. Using GPS technology to layout the maze greatly reduces roberson with backpack GPS systemthe time required to install a maze in the field. While the added cost of GPS equipment is incurred, these costs are quickly recovered in time savings during maze construction. Read this Mazes Design Article to learn how Dr. Roberson uses gps systems to design mazes and see this page to learn about the Types of Maze Designs.

About GPS Technology

Creating Crop Mazes with GPS is a publication explaining the use of GPS technology to create a crop maze.

To learn more about GPS/GIS technologies at NCSU a workshop is offered through the NCSU GIS Academy.

 

Below the NCSU Wolf Pack logo is cut into corn field on Volmer Farm in Bunn, NC. This was the first GPS field cut by Dr. Roberson and his team.

wolf cutPhoto: Roberson in field with farmer