GPS systems are used from cell phones to vehicles. Today at the College of Southern Idaho, the Agricultural Department is teaching farmers how to integrate GPS into their daily lives to improve their business.

What once would have sounded like science fiction 100 years ago, is now almost essential for today's agricultural industry. At CSI, John Deere customers are learning about the tractor guidance system.

CSI Ag Professor James Wilson said, "We're taking them through the very beginning, how it works, to the documentation, how they can use it in their business."

Professor James Wilson is the teacher at the heart of the matter. He says, GPS in a tractor can benefit a farmer's business. He said, "With the GPS technology we have today, they can actually fit more crop in a field, therefore, increasing the yield.

GPS also gives field documentation, coverage maps, tells management practices, operation analysis, and it provides better decision making.

And while these farmers still have a few more days of workshop left, they'll all leave with experience and knowledge their ancestors would have only dreamed of having.