Posted by Jon Hagen on March 25, 2010 at 08:57:31 from (69.26.23.125):
In Reply to: Re: GPS posted by Nancy Howell on March 25, 2010 at 07:46:44:
Their very helpful, we run a pair of low cost WAAS corrected GPS units (5 years) that are accurate to within 4-6 inches, plenty accurate for our needs, thats even good enough to do soybeans in 15 inch rows.
So slick and easy that you never want to look at a mechanical or foam marker again. We added auto steer to one sprayer tractor a couple years ago, much more accurate than you can drive manually and sure takes a load off the tractor operator on long days. Also gives the driver time to look the sprayer over for plugged nozzles or other problems while the tractor is driving itself arrow straight down the field.
We seed , fertilize , spray and roll 2000 acres using GPS to keep us on line.
I would guess that aprox 75% of area farmers now use GPS in place of markers.
First thing we noticed when using GPS in place of foam markers on sprayers or just an eye ball guestimate with the seeding equipment, was that skips are eliminated and overlap is reduced enough that we got aprox 10% more acres out of a tank of herbicide or a drill box of seed / fertilizer.
We are in prairie pot hole country where it is common for some fields to be cut into several sections by a sloughs or potholes. It is really neat to drive along the road and look at the GPS guided wheel tracks in the field. All the wheel tracks seperated by pot holes or sloughs lineup exactly. Makes it easy to identify the folks that still don't have GPS. ;-)
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