You get more for your premium dollars with CIS.

Our free GPS maps work great with complicated land use patterns such as this farm in the rolling hills of Southeastern Minnesota. Note the exact acreage counts and the color coded land use.

GPS maps are useful in any type of farming environment. Scroll down to learn how GPS maps help you get more value for your crop insurance dollar.

This is the same area mapped with GPS.

Our differentially corrected GPS maps are accurate to within one meter!

• The total tillable acres on the FSA map is 135.5 acres. Compare FSA field sizes to GPS.
  
  
• The total FSA acres includes the rock piles, waterways, shrub rows, and other non-productive areas.
  
  
• Are you paying for insurance and inputs for acreage that's not under production?
  
  
• Your FSA maps may not be as accurate of a planning tool as you thought, and in fact, they may be costing you money.

• The total tillable acres per our GPS maps is 132.2 acres. Compare GPS field sizes to FSA.
  
  
• Using a GPS equipped ATV, satellite measurements are recorded as we drive around the field boundaries.
  
  
• We also measure non-crop areas such as waterways, rock piles, and shrub rows. After all, why pay insurance premium on rock piles and waterways?
  
  
• When calculating yield per acre, fewer acres results in higher average yields and thus, better insurance coverage at lower rates
  

Clicking on these maps will link you to higher resolution files where you can see the detail of both maps, from an overview of your entire operation to a close-up view of each farm.

Our maps include section, township, and county based-data, as well as roads and rivers. We can even layer in aerial photography. This base data is especially helpful in determining crop insurance unit structure or simply directing someone to a particular farm and field.

Again, GPS mapping is a free service that CIS provides its clients!