Advances in Agricultural- That I need to Communicate!

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Let's take a trip back in history. 6000 B.C. Draft animals are used in replacement to humans for powering plows. 1837. During this year John Deere made his first plow out of an old sawmill blade. 1960's. No till seeders allow faster and more accurate planting of seeds. Well, 2012 brought some new technologies too. The use of Smartphones and GPS enable farmers to run combines, tractors, and irrigation systems at a touch of a finger. 

The use of Smart Phone and GPS technology is rapidly taking over many industries, agriculture included. Like I said above some of the recent uses of Smartphones involves running farm equipment. Here is some more detail:

• Tractors can go on Autopilot- Thanks to GPS's on Smartphones, farmers only have to be on their machines until a few key points are plugged in, then the computer chip does the rest. Farmers are able to track where their tractors are and have less human error in tillage rows. 

• No seed waste here- Farmers can now set up with the help of GPS technology, the exact amount of seed you need to finish off those final rows of your crop. Farmers used to have waste from double planting, but that can now be a thing of the past. This video does an excellent job of explaining this advancement.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fVCSLCIrqjU 

• There is an app for that!- Many new applications on the market for Smartphones can let farmers shut off or turn on their tractor from miles away and just with the touch of a button.

• Let's take a drive- It used to be the case that when you needed to move irrigation systems you had to drive to each field. Well imagine that, you don't need to do that anymore. If a farmer has the right technology on their Smart Phone they can send messages to the systems to move on their own and where to go!

There are many more ways Smartphones and GPD technology is aiding farmers in the field. I expect the Smartphone and GPS to be as common as the pitchfork in the next few years. Of course, anyone can use their Smartphone and be a part of agriculture: Heard of Farmville???

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With the world growing at such a rapid rate, the world is going to need to supply food for over 9 billion people in what most experts say, less than 50 years. We can't feed all that we have now! Because of that alarming fact, people in the agriculture community are doing all they can to make animals more efficient, fields more producing and equipment even more dependable. The use of Smartphones and GPS is just one way that the agriculture industry is putting every effort into supplying this ever-demanding world with food using new technologies. 

http://12most.com/2012/03/12/advanced-agricultural-technologies/ 
The link above is another great blog about the advancements in agriculture in the past year.