Farmers Making Use of Global Positioning
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The tractor weaves to ride the field's dips and rises while perfectly hugging the row previously cut by its black-clawed tiller, creating a seamless pattern of turned soil. But the person in the cab has nothing to do with this precision. Aided by a computer and a Global Positioning System &#151; a constellation of Earth-orbiting satellites &#151; the vehicle is driving itself.
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OBLIGADO, Paraguay  - Few towns in Paraguay's impoverished countryside have a stoplight, well-paved roads or a library. This remote farming community has all three, and residents cite one reason: soybeans.
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Aid workers in the region of Darfur are getting a helping hand from advanced satellite mapping technology.
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DWIGHT, Illinois  - Illinois farmer Rick Parker was busy spraying his crops with pesticide this week but weeds were not his biggest worry as he surveyed his fields.
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By van den Ban, Anne  The Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Assen, the Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. 432 pp. Euro 3750 (paper). ISBN: 90-232-3892-3.
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Geotagging could spur a new generation of services.
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By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Dec. 14--GOVERNMENT CAMP -- High tech has come to the mountains, with  more on the way.   Unmanned drones and a high-tech triangulation of cell phone signals and  phones with global positioning systems were on site Wednesday.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  Lots of farmers have stood next to their dairy effluent ponds and watched the biogas bubble up and disappear into the air.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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Seventy percent of global water usage is taken up by agriculture and using water efficiently is seen as key in preventing serious shortages, with experts studying river basins across the world for clues to boost food production.
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The Cumbria Farmer Network has taken over the work of the Rural Futures project.   Since the foot-and-mouth epidemic, Rural Futures has helped farmers gain grants to improve their businesses.
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DeLormeâs Earthmate GPS PN-20 displays topographical maps as realistic 3-D flyover simulations.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 22--Speakers at the Colorado Agricultural Outlook Forum Wednesday in Denver offered varying ideas for farmers to make their operations more environmentally friendly.
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No other way to cope with monster vegetable menace In a further outre twist, the budding Japanese robot'n' exoskeleton industry plans to move into a new sector. Researchers in the land of the Rising Sun have exhibited a mighty powered suit which could see increasingly elderly farmers - lifespans prolonged indefinitely perhaps, by advancing medical technology - striding across the fields reaping crops and lifting heavy loads.â¦
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Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.
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GUANLI, China  - It is peak harvest season in this village in northern China, and apples are piled high on both sides of the road, clogging the traffic of tractors, trucks and carts bringing in the crop from all around.
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By JAMES HANNAH MARTINSVILLE, Ohio - Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer. The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.