Like I am sure all of you out there were doing, I was perusing
The Western Farm Press Daily this morning and came across an
article about how Farmers are getting into the PocketPC act! Farmers are finding GPS tracking add-ons to be especially helpful for pinpointing troubles with their crops. Using an iPAQ with GPS for example, the Farmer can find insect problems, water shortages, and explain to the ´Little Lady´ where you´ve been all day and why there is lipstick on your collar (The Cow kissed me, I swear!).
“I have been using simple GPS units to mark spots in fields where I want to take pressure bomb readings for irrigation scheduling,” said Hill. “I have two employees. Each has a unit that will take them to exactly where I want to take readings to get consistent reasons all season long.”
The iPAQ GPS system he tried out goes one step beyond that. It will download aerial images of fields that give Hill an overview of an entire field to identify problem areas. And it is equipped with programs he can use to download information he collects from the fields, be it pressure bomb readings or other information he wants to download. "