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Trimble Agriculture's StraightTalk, the essential newsletter for precision agriculture.

Current Issue: Winter 2008

The Winter 2008 issue of Trimble Agriculture's StraightTalk is now available.

What's in this issue?

  • How three operators measure payback on their Trimble GPS systems.
  • What'll it be: row markers, or a new AgGPS® system? A 3,200 acre seed operation in northwest Nebraska increases efficiency by investing in an EZ-Steer® 500 assisted steering system.
  • "EZ" systems boost a wheat grower's output 25% in Wiggins, Colorado.
  • AgGPS TrueTracker™: RTK's missing link . . . found. Read how two customers report using implements of differing widths is no longer a concern with the AgGPS TrueTracker system, achieving +/- 1 inch RTK repeatability on their sloping fields and contoured land.
  • How GLONASS is now more affordable with the Trimble® AgGPS FieldLevel II System. Read initial reactions to the FieldLevel II RTK system with AgGPS 442 GNSS receiver from Davis, California.
  • A big boost in cotton productivity is achieved by Rennian Land Leveling Contractors in northwest China by using a Trimble laser land leveling system.
  • Autopilot RTK system helps rescue manually laid drip tape to improve use of water, seed and chemicals in cotton fields near Levelland, Texas.

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