Ag Education Field Day
Stanberry FFA

September 18, 2007

In one of the sessions students discussed several ways in which computers could
be used on farms and composed the following list:

• Check markets
  • Grain and livestock prices
• Equipment prices
• Checking weather
• Seed prices
• Expense records
• GoogleEarth
• Variety testing
• Research
• New technologies
• Checking news
• Communication
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • MySpace
  • Bebo
  • Yahoo! Messenger
• Playing games
• Buying and selling equipment and vehicles
• Sharing information
• Online banking
• Controlling environments and feeders in remote barns
• Online trading
• Shopping for parts
• Checking diesel prices and other inputs
• Advertise
• TV
• Download "legal" music
• EBay
• Locate and control shipping
• Keeping logbooks
• GPS and GIS
• Digital imaging
• Locate vacation spots…do farmers go on vacation?

Length of Video: 29 seconds
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