In the palm of his handUntil recently, when a fencepostdrivers prospective buyer would come to the Koupal Angus ranch near Dante, South Dakota, to look at bulls, La Vern Koupal (pictured at far left) would grab a thick stack of records and carry them out to the rolling pastures. "I''d be digging through the papers, and the wind would be flipping the pages, and I could fencepostdrivers never find the right page," says Koupal.Now he takes his $850 Palm Pilot Out of his coat pocket, writes in a bull number, and instantly gets all the production and bloodline information he and the buyer need. "It''s unreal what this technology can do," he says.

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