Apps For Growers
June 30, 2011 AGRIplot
Available For iPhone
Cost: $1.29
AGRIplot allows you to plot any land where you have a GPS signal. Simply walk around your property and add a landmark point. AGRIplot will automatically calculate the area enclosed by the points and provide the distances between each point. You can even take pictures associated with each landmark point for a visual representation.
Precision Laboratories Mix Tank
Available for iPhone and the Web (www.mixtankapp.com)
Cost: Free
This app determines the proper mixing sequence for crop protection products, adjuvants, and foliar nutrition products in a simple format. It includes more than 800 crop protection products. Users also have the ability to share their recommended mixing orders through eMail, Facebook, and Twitter, and to request that additional crop protection products
be added to the database.
SoilWeb
Available for iPhone and Android
Cost: Free
This application uses the GPS built into the smartphone to acquire your current location, and then submits an HTTP request to a server via the SoilWeb API. A graphical summary of the soils mapped at your current location is presented on screen, with links to details through an online soil survey, or via the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service official series description archive.
Field Notes
Available for iPhone
Cost: $30.99
Field Notes is an agricultural application that allows you to keep pesticide records on your iPhone instead of keeping written hand notes on paper.