---
title: "Get a paddock"
method: GET
path: "/paddocks/{id}"
tags: ["Paddocks"]
---

# Get a paddock

`GET /paddocks/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.purplegrain.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.purplegrain.com/api/v1/paddocks/{id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - HTTP bearer

One paddock: its name, `area_ha` with its `area_source`, land use, crop,
archive state, its diary counters (`record_count`, `open_task_count`),
and its outline. The owning property is the `farm` relationship, and
`block_id` is the block it sits in inside that property (null for the
home block; the block's name and members are the property's `blocks`).
`withholding` is the grazing or harvest withholding period still ahead,
from the paddock's completed sprays and from the seed treatments of a
completed sowing, or null when the paddock is clear. Fertiliser and
field work do not change it. The same fact for every asset on the
property is `getFarmStatus`.

`boundary` is an array of closed rings, each an array of
`[longitude, latitude]` pairs — **longitude first**, never a GeoJSON
object — or null while the paddock is known by name only
(`has_boundary: false`); `boundary_source` says how the ring was
captured. Write it with `updatePaddockBoundary`. Everything filed on it
— the property, its tasks and records, moves that name it, and the mobs
standing in it — is `listAssetResources` with `asset_type=paddock`. The
task board alone is `listTasks` with `asset_id`. Any accepted member of
the owning organization can read; a personal property is its owner's.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `include` string

## Response `200`

Successful

- PaddocksShowResponseAttributes
  - `data` PaddockModelAttributes: Single paddock in attributes-adapter shape (Accept application/json).
    - `id` string
    - `type` string
    - `slug` string: Unique within its parent (a property per owner; a paddock or mob per property); generated from the name and renamed with it. The old slug keeps resolving. See `resolveLink`.
    - `web_path` string: The address on the web. Present when read directly.
    - `url` string: The whole link; carries the property's `?share=` token when it is shared by link. Present when read directly.
    - `name` string
    - `area_ha` number, nullable: Paddock area in hectares. Measured from the boundary when `area_source` is `drawn`; the farmer's own number when it is `typed`.
    - `area_source` 'typed' | 'drawn', nullable: Where `area_ha` came from. A `typed` area is never overwritten by a drawn one.
    - `land_use` 'cropping' | 'grazing' | 'mixed' | 'fallow', nullable
    - `current_crop` string, nullable
    - `boundary` array[], nullable: The paddock outline: an array of rings, each ring an array of `[longitude, latitude]` pairs in RFC 7946 order — **longitude first** — with at least 4 positions and the first repeated last. Not a GeoJSON object (see `PaddockBoundaryModel`).
      - array[]: One closed exterior ring.
        - number[]: [longitude, latitude]
    - `has_boundary` boolean: Whether the paddock has an outline at all — the cheap face of `boundary`.
    - `withholding` object, nullable: Is the paddock under a grazing or harvest withholding period right now? The latest spray record whose graze or harvest date is still ahead, or null. **Derived, not stored.** Read-only. Served on the paddock's own read and on lists (SPRAY_RECORD.md).
      - `task_id` string
      - `record_id` string: The SprayRecord id.
      - `safe_to_graze_on` string, date, nullable
      - `safe_to_harvest_on` string, date, nullable
      - `products` string[]
    - `boundary_captured_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `boundary_source` 'traced' | 'grid' | 'gps' | 'imported', nullable: How the ring was captured — traced over imagery, placed on the grid with no imagery, walked with the phone's GPS, or read from a KML/shapefile. Null for a ring saved before provenance was recorded or by a caller that named no source. Written with the ring and cleared with it.
    - `boundary_captured_by` string, nullable: Id of the user who saved the ring, stamped server-side from the request's actor and never accepted from a client. Null when a machine token saved it, and null while the paddock has no ring.
    - `archived` boolean: An archived paddock leaves the map and the lists; its records stay on the property.
    - `archived_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `block_id` string, uuid, nullable: The block the paddock sits in. Null in the home block.
    - `record_count` integer: Completed rows on this paddock — its diary.
    - `open_task_count` integer: Pending rows on this paddock.
    - `last_record_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `created_at` string, date-time
    - `updated_at` string, date-time
    - `farm` object: Present when include=farm
  - `meta` PaginationMeta
    - `current_page` number
    - `next_page` number, nullable
    - `prev_page` number, nullable

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found

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