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Android Applications for Agriculture!

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Dan Folske

November 7, 2011

 

Apps for Agriculture

            So you’ve got an Android. Can you use it for more than phone calls, texting, and checking Markets? Here is a list of Android Apps for agriculture and the links to get them.

 

Available Apps:

  1. Machinery Sizing
    1. Estimate tractor horsepower to pull various implements
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jsdvorak.machinerysizing&hl=en
  2. Tank Mix Calculator
    1. Generate a tank mix
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.taplogic.tankmixcalculator
  3. Bubble Search
    1. Spirit Level Plus
    2. Free
  4. Target Date – Lite      
    1. Calculates time between two dates
    2. Free http://www.appbrain.com/app/target-date/com.MPM.ProjecTarget.Alpha
  5. Real Calc        
    1. On-the-fly unit conversions. Example: Number of acres for any given pass of the corn planter.
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.nickfines.RealCalc&hl=en
  6. GPS Measure
    1. Measure distance using the GPS in the phone and Google Maps
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wrhenterprises.GPS_Measure&hl=en
  7. Farm Futures  
    1. Farm commodity future markets
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=farmfutures.inetsgi.com&hl=en  
  8. Northern Plains Integrated Pest Management Guide
    1. Current effective management options for insect and other arthropod pests and for plant pathogens affecting all major field crops grown in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas
    2. Free https://market.android.com/details?id=edu.sdstate.npipmguide
  9. Soil Web        
    1. GPS based, real-time access to USDA-NRCS soil survey data
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