How much are you paying to design and create your corn maze? Did you know that with the right combination of software, hardware, and GPS that you can easily create your own maze and save money? Farm Works Software offers the complete solution for your corn maze needs. GPS is a very important tool in designing and maintaining corn mazes. With a client base of over 30,000 farmers, we understand how valuable GPS can be and how it can be used to reduce work and increase profits.
The Professional Maze Kit allows you to take any image (such as an image from a maze designer) and easily geo-reference it yourself. Simply take the image to the field and start cutting the maze using GPS. From basic designs to the most intricate and elaborate creations, this technology can turn your concepts into an attraction people will be talking about for years. The Professional Kit also includes valuable desktop software for maze creation as well as printing for posters, flyers, and other promotions.
The Rental Maze Kit allows you to rent the hardware and software to design and cut your corn maze. This option gives you the flexibility to try it before you own it. Use the kit for six months and create unlimited mazes and map other important jobs on the farm. The customer will have two choices at the end of the rental agreement. They may either return everything to Farm Works or use the Own Now option. Experience "A-maizing Profits!" with this technology and save time by not relying on others to do the work for you. It is just too easy to do it yourself.
A-Mazing Testimonies GPS is a very important tool in designing and maintaining corn mazes. Farm Works has been providing GPS products to the ag industry for over 10 years. With a client base of over 30,000 farmers, we understand how valuable GPS can be and how it can be used to reduce work and increase income. David Staley (Westview Orchard), Dave Frushour (Thistleberry Farm), and Matt Talladay (Talladay Farms) are three of many who use this technology for their own corn mazes. This is what they had to say...
In 2006, we realized the need to invest in some equipment to make things easier and improve the look of the corn maze. We were very pleased to discover Farm Works Software. They had a complete package available of hardware and software that would do everything we needed. Suddenly, if we could draw it, we could make it into a corn maze. Circles, curves, pictures, words – anything we could imagine we could do. Since we are in complete control of the entire process, we are able to be more creative with how we use the technology. We currently put in three different corn mazes of various sizes covering a total of 16 acres. This year we are going to experiment with creating custom waypoint files for customers who want to bring their own GPS to the maze.” More information on Thistleberry Farms Corn Mazes (including pictures). Dave Frushour
Thank you for the great system and keep up the good work." The full story on Westview Orchards David Staley
I opened a new path log file and from then on, I just kept my GPS positioning cursor on my lines, which were my paths, and the path log file would color in where I had been so I knew where I had already cut. I just used a 60" zero turn mower, my Ipaq and rented GPS receiver. It was tricky at first trying to keep the cursor on the lines, as you can see by some of the mistakes in the aerial photo, but since then the corn has grown back in and I was able to "repair" my mistakes. I have many more photos on the maze website: www.Talladayfarms.com. The calibration and Farm Site Mate programs were very simple to use and were a perfect fit for this type of project. Next year will be even easier because I've got a better handle on the whole process now. Thanks for all the help! Farm Works is a great company and I really appreciate all of the support from you." Matt Talladay |
“We created our first corn maze in 2005. Covering about 6 acres, it was a very simple design consisting of straight lines and ninety degree turns. We had to count the rows to determine where each turn would be. It was laborious and very time consuming. 
"The simplicity of the software program made it a breeze to cut the maze. Once you GPS map the field boundary, use the desktop software to design the maze. If you can dream it, you can cut it. We scheduled a “fly over” of the finished corn maze, and it turned out absolutely awesome. It was a tough year with little rain; however, it still looked wonderful and the maze was a hit. We are excited about the corn maze this year and plan on using Farm Works Software to create the maze again. I am serious when I say, “You will spend a little time with the handheld in the field, a little time on your computer and then you will be cutting your own maze.” You will be able to say the same thing, “That was easy why didn’t I do this before?” An important aspect of the software that we enjoy is the management side to the operation. We have begun using other parts of the software for our animals, equipment, and chemical usage. We really like the fact that we can consolidate a lot of records into one program. Just like any new system we continue to learn and grow with the system on a daily basis. 
"The maze project was quite simple actually. I hand-drew a design and scanned that into Photoshop then squared everything up as well as marked the lines with the line tool. Farm Site would have worked just as well, only I did not have that on my laptop at the time. I then used my Ipaq and a rented GPS receiver from Farm Works to walk the boundary of the field where my maze was going to be cut out of. After I had the boundary, I just used the "3-point system" to geo-reference the image. I did the geo-referencing in the Farm Works calibration program. I sent the image back to my Ipaq as a jpeg for my background in Farm Site Mate. 