GPS for spraying and fert spreading?

[farmerjohn]

Is anyone here using a GPS for pasture spraying, fertilizer spreading etc?

IF so, which one?

Do u like it? Is it hard to use? In other words does it make you tired trying to keep it lined up all day?

 

[Limomike]

check out this site... http://www.noble.org/Ag/Farms/FromTheFa ... index.html

 

[novatech]

check out this site... http://www.noble.org/Ag/Farms/FromTheFa ... index.html

That thing looks great. Thats more than I spent on my tractor.

I wounder how many acres of spraying it would take to justify it?

 

[Jogeephus]

Southern states was doing it big here for a while. Kinda fell to the wayside I think cause I haven't seen it done much anymore.

 

[Earl Thigpen]

I heard about his when I was takin' my private applicators course. Thought it was a neat idea but it's sure a long stretch from being a good idea and puttin' it to use in a practical sense.

Even the soil test people still recommend taking samples from several spots all over the field, throwing them all in a bag and mix them up before sending one sample. This gives an average of what the field needs, not a spot requirement. Doing the analysis one small plot at a time would get real expensive in a hurry.

Still a neat idea.

 

[MikeC]

The GPS fertilizer application is generally useless without a GPS grain monitor on the combine, or at least knowing which areas that need different amounts of fertilizer.

The idea is to save fertilizer that is put down on ground that doesn't need it and to add fertilizer too the poorer soil to get a production boost.

 

[somn]

Trimble ez guide plus. Of course you will need to do alot of spraying and fertilizing in order to make it pay for itself. But it will pay for itself.

http://www.trimble.com/aggps_ezguide_plus.shtml

 

[sricks]

Cheap, simple and much easier to use. buy the software and a $250 gps and load the software on your laptop. Birds eye view that is very easy to understand.


Scott