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Our Crop Consultant Pulling Soil Samples
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Setting up the grid for the field in his computer.
Unloading the ATV
Probing about 8 inches deep.
It takes 5 probes around a GPS point to make up one “sample” bag for the lab to test.
Yes, he has a GPS bubble on his ATV. He finds the points on the grid that way. He samples every 2.5 acres.
GPS readout around a point.
Heading to the next point.
He sampled 680 acres in less than 12 hours.
GPS and Filling Up at Night
The GPS in the tractor is running off of 21 satellites – 6 Russian and 15 American. This is the readout for the Russian ones.
It’s almost like flying an airplane with the Roll, Pitch and Yaw!
Yep! We fill up even in the dark. We’re thankful for all the lights on the tractor.
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