| Ever since I have been able to use Garmin GPS | | | | That also means that in my farm trucks, like |
| I can now grow crops more effectively than | | | | the big one Jose uses, he can take it down |
| before. You might wonder to yourself "How | | | | the field and use the big seeder in an |
| can some Podunk farmer grow better with GPS?" | | | | absolute straight line after making perfect |
| Well, first of all, we're not all like that, | | | | reference lines with the truck. Additionally |
| and secondly the trick is how you manage it | | | | to that, Jose can also drive the seeder using |
| on your land. With my Garmin GPS mapping and | | | | a handheld Garmin GPS fitted to the |
| my tractors and planters using it I can fit | | | | dashboard, and know if he's going straight |
| more crop onto one field than ever before, by | | | | enough or not. The entire GPS has allowed me |
| making precision decision, as I say. First | | | | to marginally increase my production, which |
| of all let's say you have yourself a nice | | | | means I increase my profit, and by doing that |
| mapped out chunk of land that is the shape of | | | | keep my farming as profitable as possible, in |
| a square, and it is a total of 10 acres of | | | | spite of these times. |
| land. Well, the old way was planting by eye, | | | | |
| or trying to drive in a straight line for | | | | I know I may not have a big farm, or a large |
| reference lines and then doing it. Of course | | | | workforce, but by being able to map out my |
| there was nothing really wrong with that, but | | | | land and then plot out crops and use land |
| small deviations created what could only be | | | | that was previously wasted I am able to take |
| described as the butterfly effect. | | | | full advantage of the Garmin GPS to make sure |
| | | | I put food on the plates of people who buy my |
| In basic terms it means small actions at the | | | | corn and other crops. I can also use those |
| beginning could lead to large results at the | | | | spaces between the land that were previously |
| end. If one of the workers I hire goes off | | | | unused because of poor planning to grow |
| and changes less than a degree in the angle | | | | smaller crops, such as tomatoes; in some |
| of the crop line, it doesn't seem like much - | | | | areas I also plan to put in a few pumpkins |
| but down the line it could equal to a whole | | | | too. With those crops I'll be able to sell |
| line of crop being abandoned because it can't | | | | just a little bit more and that makes a big |
| be fit into the parcel of land. Furthermore | | | | difference down the line. Like I said, the |
| I can now map out the land easier, quicker, | | | | butterfly effect, it's responsible for |
| and make the rows just barely an inch | | | | variations costing me money, but also |
| tighter, and fit in an extra row of, oh, | | | | variations that can make me money too. By |
| let's say corn. By mapping it out using | | | | saving what is insignificant as an inch, it |
| accurate maps, and Garmin GPS I can make sure | | | | grants me a foot every twelve rows, and after |
| that my crops will grow correctly and the way | | | | three sets of twelve, that is three extra |
| I want. | | | | feet of growing room - something I could have |
| | | | never done without the Garmin GPS. |