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Precision Agriculture utilization in Alaska lags considerably behind the rest of the country and was practically non-existent before 2008. This is largely due to the cost of Precision Agriculture technology, lack of infrastructure and the relatively small size of a typical Alaskan farm. Also contributing to this is the isolation of Alaskan farmers from trade shows and demonstrations of new implements. This began to change when the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service decided to promote the use of Precision Agriculture and Precision Agriculture techniques to Alaskan farmers. Workshops on Precision Agriculture were conducted around the state and at agricultural conferences. Opinion leading farmers were recruited to help with Extension’s efforts. During the summer of 2008 Alaska's first Precision Agriculture Demonstration Day was conducted. In 2009 the state's first GPS Cooperative was formed. By 2010 three forms of Precision Agriculture had been adopted. They are manual lightbar guidance, RTK (Real Time Kinematice) automatic guidance and precision soil modeling for the production of fertilizer prescriptions. source:abstract