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Autonomous Tech Helps Illinois Farmer to Meet Efficiency Goal – DTN Feb 22, 2022
As Dave Geils watched his AGCO Challenger pull a high-speed disk across a recently harvested cornfield without a driver in mid-November, a couple of thoughts crossed his mind. First, he […]
Concept Becomes Reality With Autonomous John Deere Tractor – DTN Feb 17, 2022
Deere will have more than 10 but less than 50 of its newly launched autonomous 8R tractors out working the 2022 crop year. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) […]
Deere Reveals Autonomous Tractor at CES – DTN Jan 6, 2022
John Deere unveiled Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics (CES) show in Las Vegas a fully autonomous production tractor ready for delivery to its customers this year. This first autonomous system […]
Robotic Tractors Work to Fill Ag Labor Gap – DTN Feb 19, 2021
Josh Ruiz invests in technology because there simply isn’t more labor to be had, he said. The vice president of agriculture operations for Church Brothers Farms in California’s Salinas Valley, […]
Soybeans Planted with Autonomous Tractors – How Did it Go? – DTN May 26, 2020
Farmer curiosity and debate about autonomous farming spiked recently after DTN’s latest robotic planting article. The subject topped readership charts, garnered more than 120 comments on Facebook and sent Twitter […]
Autonomous Planting: 500 Acres, Zero Drivers – DTN May 8, 2020
Three tractors and planters seeded more than 500 acres of soybeans at a northwest Iowa farm last week with no one at the wheel. If you need information related to […]
Corn Acres Lead Crops Using GPS Guidance Systems May 23, 2019
Guidance systems use global positioning system (GPS) coordinates to automatically steer farm equipment like combines, tractors, and self-propelled sprayers. This helps reduce operator fatigue and pinpoint precise field locations within […]
Driverless Tractor Prototypes Unveiled At Major Farm Show Aug 30, 2016
Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) and CNH Industrial have announced the unveiling of concept autonomous tractors. ASI is CNH Industrial’s technology provider responsible for developing autonomous vehicle technology for a concept […]
