Re: Are They Lying?

Posted by Paul in Mich on February 16, 2004 at 12:30:13 from (68.188.227.110):

In Reply to: Are They Lying? posted by Miss Grundy on February 16, 2004 at 03:49:51:

Miss Grundy, Read the article from Case IH about GPS and imagine your tractor on auto pilot. Can you also imagine that someone would install a TV in the cab to watch while the tractor pilots itself across the field? It is entirely possible and probably in some cases. Nobody was lying to you, believe me. The Technology is there, farming has just now caught up to the technology. I attended a farmers meeting a week or so ago and the speaker suggested that in the near future, any farmer who decides to sell his land will be required to have mapping data available to prospective sellers in the way of computerized history of fertilizer, seed population, spraying proceedures which as we all know can vary from field to field and from acre to acre depending on the soil condition, and other variables. To fail to do so will result in land values being depreciated accordingly. The next generation of farmers will be unrecognizable to todays farmers. GPS is just the beginnning. Remember we have had this technology in manufacturing for 25 or so years its called CNC machining, where pockets of regular or irregular shapes even with islands can be defined by perrimiter and that data entered into the machine computer which automatically machines the material from one common reference point. "X" and "Y" coordinates in maching is the very same principle as longitude and latitude in GPS. Once the perimeter of a field is established and obsticles such as trees, wire towers, electric poles, and even wooded areas are defined, the GPS computer takes over, and except for making headland turns, the tractor is on auto-pilot. Also, Murphy's law applies here "If you can imagine something happening ie. TV in tractor cab, it already has happened".

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