GPS College Class
Getting direction from above! Sounds like a sermon or a class we might take in bible school. Great idea, but that’s not what I’m talking about I’ll get to the point after this important message. There’s been a lot of recent attention focused on high-tech farming. If a producer can reduce input costs significantly by using inexpensive technology that is easily available, then for goodness sakes…go for it. You’ve heard all those Tom-Tom commercials talking about getting satellite guidance (as I mentioned earlier…from above…) from Point A to Point B, haven’t you. Well Tom-Tom is just a GPS and now, College of Southern Idaho Agriculture Professor Jim Wilson is teaching courses in the use of global positioning as a requirement in CSI’s ag degree program: “Tractor guidance is becoming very important for fuel savings, monetary costs, doing things in the right place at the right time, is going to become very important in the near future, more so than it is today. This technology is going to become a standard. Much like putting a radio in a vehicle, GPS is going to become a standard in all agricultural equipment.”
