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U.S. Sugar, Everglades Equipment Group and Autonomous Solutions Inc. have announced the nation’s largest commercial deployment of autonomous tractors in the American sugar industry. The fleet of unmanned John Deere tractors are being implemented on 255,000 acres of farmland in South Florida. The fleet of tractors are operating in sugarcane fields 24 hours a day, seven days a week. While …
What would have been seen as science fiction a decade ago is quickly becoming reality. In December, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple completed a truck run on the open road without a human in the vehicle. The 80-mile trip on surface roads and highways in Arizona between a rail yard in Tucson and a distribution center in Phoenix was completed successfully. According to …
Everett Griner talks about how automation and technology advances have caused job losses in today’s Agri View. More and more farming is becoming an automated industry. It speeds up production and increases overall output. Driverless tractors, milking machines, drone aircraft, just to name a few. It keeps growing. But, there is a downside to all of this advancing technology. The …
Everett Griner talks about the self-driving tractors that have arrived in today’s Agri View. That self-driving tractor we have been hearing about was actually on display at the last farm progress show. I didn’t see it, but I got a picture of it. It looks more like a giant turtle than it does a tractor. There’s no superstructure above the 80 …
