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West Central Missouri | I bought a handheld Garmin ETREX 22x and use it to physically go around outside of fields (or parts of fields) and measure using GPS. I started doing this 20-25 years ago when it seemed that FSA was changing my field map acres about every year for no apparent reason, and had a few fields where FSA wasn't even close to being accurate on planted acres. GPS is more accurate than estimates or measuring using GIS on phone or computer screen. Re-measure whenever I change something on field borders or have split or partial fields. Can upload Garmin info to computer and use free download software from Garmin to also print out boundary maps on paper, which I save with my FSA info/maps. Not sure if can still do this, but several years ago when using an older ETREX 10, I was able to transfer the Garmin "track" datasets to Google Earth-Pro and print field boundaries via Google Earth-Pro for some really nice aerial photo maps with actual GPS field boundaries marked via Garmin "track" info. | |
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Acreage mapping
