Hands-on precision ag lessons yield ‘aha’ moments for students

Students from Jim Fitzgerald’s precision agriculture class at Boone High School pushed a utility cart across one of the school’s athletic fields on a recent sunny spring morning, trying their best to roll along a straight but invisible line. Without assistance from the cart’s GPS-powered tools, it was a tough mark to hit.“We were off by 17 feet after a single pass, so think how much we’d be off over a whole field,” Fitzgerald told the students. The return pass