New Service Tells You When It Rains

New Service Tells You When It Rains MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Remember the good old days when you walked out into a field looked up into the sky and if your face got wet you knew it was raining? You don t have to do that anymore An email service that costs $10 per month per field will monitor rainfall and tell you when it rains and how much comes down MyRainReport com is headquartered in Alabama but covers the entire U S and is no doubt geared to big farmers or farm managers who have farms scattered across a wide area The company claims that using patent-pending technology and proprietary algorithms they can give you a more accurate reading than a good old fashioned rain gauge But reading about the service this old editor couldn t help but get a little nostalgic for the days when most back 40 s were actually out behind the barn

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