2023 Spring Farm Outlook

Page 28 2023 Logan County Spring Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March 2023 For more than twenty years, tractors have had self-driving capabilities. However, someone still had to be in the tractor. With recent advancements in technology, John Deere has developed a tractor that is fully autonomous and able to do tillage with no one sitting in the tractor. At the January 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, John Deere unveiled an autonomous tractor that would soon be produced on a large scale. John Deere unveils the unmanned machine – “The Next Giant Leap in Technology” By last fall, these tractors were coming off the assembly line in Waterloo, Iowa. Calling it “The Next Giant Leap in Technology,” John Deere says autonomous tractors not only think but also see. Additionally, they are “always ready to work, no matter how early or how late” and “lets you and your operators tackle other jobs while it does its job . . . by itself.” To use an autonomous tractor, a farmer simply transports the machine to field, swipes a hand across the computer screen to start the engine By Angela Reiners Continued --