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A windrow is a row of cut (mowed) hay
Hay

Hay is a generic term for Poaceae or legumes that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals like cattle, horses, domestic goat, and sheep....
 or small grain crop.

It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake
Hay rake

File:Hay rake.jpgA hay rake is an agricultural rake used to collect cut hay into windrows for later collection . It is also designed to fluff up the hay and turn it over so that it may dry....
, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mower
Mower

A mower is a machine for cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. A smaller mower used for lawns and sports grounds is called a lawn mower or grounds mower, which is often self-powered, or may also be small enough to be pushed by the operator....
 machine or by scythe
Scythe

A scythe is an agriculture hand tool for mowing grass or reaping agriculture. It was largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia....
 into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mowed. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by swather
Swather

A swather is a farm implement that cuts hay or small Cereal Crop s and forms them into a windrow.A swather may be self propelled via an internal combustion engine, or may be drawn by a tractor and powered through a power take-off shaft....
 which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.

By analogy, the term may also be applied to a row of any other material such as snow, earth, etc.






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A windrow is a row of cut (mowed) hay
Hay

Hay is a generic term for Poaceae or legumes that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals like cattle, horses, domestic goat, and sheep....
 or small grain crop.

It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake
Hay rake

File:Hay rake.jpgA hay rake is an agricultural rake used to collect cut hay into windrows for later collection . It is also designed to fluff up the hay and turn it over so that it may dry....
, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mower
Mower

A mower is a machine for cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. A smaller mower used for lawns and sports grounds is called a lawn mower or grounds mower, which is often self-powered, or may also be small enough to be pushed by the operator....
 machine or by scythe
Scythe

A scythe is an agriculture hand tool for mowing grass or reaping agriculture. It was largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia....
 into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mowed. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by swather
Swather

A swather is a farm implement that cuts hay or small Cereal Crop s and forms them into a windrow.A swather may be self propelled via an internal combustion engine, or may be drawn by a tractor and powered through a power take-off shaft....
 which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.

By analogy, the term may also be applied to a row of any other material such as snow, earth, etc. In the case of snow, windrows are created by snow plows as they plow streets. The windrow may block driveway
Driveway

A driveway is a type of private road for local access to one or a small group of structures, and is owned and maintained by an individual or group....
s. Some municipalities have windrow removal service where a smaller plow goes to each individual driveway to clear the windrow. Most cities simply make the home owner clear the windrow to their own driveway.

A few cities will plow the windrow to the center of the street, blow the snow into trucks, and haul it away. Windrows made of snow are also called berm
Berm

A berm is a level space, shelf, or raised barrier separating two areas. Berm is a loanword from Dutch language....
s or more commonly, snow banks. A windrow can also be the build-up of material on the edge of newly graded earthworks and dirt roads, or it can be a heap of road-building material laid down by a dump truck
Dump truck

A dump truck or production truck is a truck used for transporting loose material for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a Hydraulic machinery operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery....
 for collection by a paving machine
Paver (vehicle)

A paver is an engineering vehicle used to lay asphalt on roadways. It is normally fed by a dump truck. A separate machine, a Road roller, is then used to press the hot asphalt mix, resulting a smooth, even surface....
.

Windrows of seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
 etc also form on the surface of lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
s or sea
SEA

See also: Sea and seasThe three-letter acronym SEA may refer to:People/organizations/businesses*Scientists and Engineers for America, a pro-science political advocacy group....
s due to cylindrical Langmuir circulation
Langmuir circulation

Langmuir circulation is a wind driven helix circulation in the ocean with the axis almost parallel to the wind. Irving Langmuir discovered this phenomenon after noticing windrows of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea in 1938....
 just under the surface caused by the action of the wind. Windrows of soil are often used in large scale vermicompost
Vermicompost

Vermicompost is the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by some species of earthworm. Containing water-soluble nutrients, and bacteria, vermicompost is an excellent, nutrient-rich organic fertilizer and soil conditioner....
ing systems. Municipalities that collect raked-up leaves ask that their citizens rake their leaves into windrows along and above the curb