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{ Monthly Archives } November 2009

Harvesting the Benefits of Facebook and Twitter

I have a Facebook account and a Twitter account, but I don’t use them very much.  It’s one of those areas where I just don’t get it.  If you are interested in using social media tools for agriculture, Harvesting the Benefits of Facebook and Twitter is worth reading.

ATV Soil Sampler Pictures

I’ve seen some searches for an ATV Soil Sampler show up in the site results.   I’ve set up a Picasa album with ATV Soil Sampler Pictures.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

Loading Shapefiles Onto a Garmin GPSmap76

We use a Garmin GPSmap 76 to mark soil sample points. Unfortunately, this GPS does not allow for direct uploading of shapefiles. A shapefile on the GPS can be useful for finding fields or areas of fields. These workaround convert shapefiles to tracks for upload to the GPS. The DNRGarmin tool can read shapefiles and [...]