One of the tools I find very useful in our crop scouting, damage claim, and manure management work is DNRGarmin. The feature I use the most is its ability to transfer Arc View Shapefiles to a Garmin GPS. This lets me upload field boundaries, set points within a particular soil group for ground truthing, or [...]
I spent the day out in the field today doing plant counts. We’ve found that a 1/4 meter square is a nice area for counting plants. Ron had some wire frame squares made up to make it easy to see how many plants the are in a given area. We have frames that measure one [...]
I was out in the field on Thursday so I brought along a GPS and a digital camera and took some photos to geotag. Geotagging is taking a photo and adding information about where it was taken. (If you want a more technical definition, check out Wikipedia.) Equipment: I used a Garmin GPSmap 60 and [...]
