The self driving tractor is being made right now by Case ih and New Holland. The tractor made it first “appearance” at the farm progress show in Boone Iowa. The wireless tractors are programed by tablet. The farmers can choose what task they want the tractor to do and what speed and what do when the task is done. This is a very expensive tractor, but the main idea of this is to have a tractor that can replace hired hands. It could eventually save you money after a while, since you would not have to pay for workers.
This tractor has the power to do any task that the farmer might ask of it. Planting, fertilizer, grain cart and tillage. It comes equipped with the same technology one would expect from a self driving car. Obstacle detection, radar, lidar, GPS, lasers and high precision cameras. These tractors can work in the same fields as other tractors or different fields. This tractor has 419 horsepower and it has a maximum speed of 31 mph.
With the growing number of farmers going digital, because training a farm hand to run all of the equipment is one of many challenges, this tractor seems to be the best solution. It can ‘do it all”, but like everything it comes at a very very pretty price ranging around $550,000-$1,000,000 dollars. Most farmers may not be able to acquire this much money for one tractor, considering most only farm around 1700 acres.
I think that the tractor as a idea is a good one, but as a actual item that one can buy, not so much. There are a lot of farming accidents with a human driver and I don’t think that this will change that, granted I could be wrong it might be the safest thing on the farm, but I need to see it to believe it. I saw this tractor at the farm progress show in Boone Iowa it looked very strange and I don’t like the fact that the farmer can’t drive the tractor, since there is no steering wheel or seat or even a cab. I'm not against the idea, I just need to know more about it.
This tractor has the power to do any task that the farmer might ask of it. Planting, fertilizer, grain cart and tillage. It comes equipped with the same technology one would expect from a self driving car. Obstacle detection, radar, lidar, GPS, lasers and high precision cameras. These tractors can work in the same fields as other tractors or different fields. This tractor has 419 horsepower and it has a maximum speed of 31 mph.
With the growing number of farmers going digital, because training a farm hand to run all of the equipment is one of many challenges, this tractor seems to be the best solution. It can ‘do it all”, but like everything it comes at a very very pretty price ranging around $550,000-$1,000,000 dollars. Most farmers may not be able to acquire this much money for one tractor, considering most only farm around 1700 acres.
I think that the tractor as a idea is a good one, but as a actual item that one can buy, not so much. There are a lot of farming accidents with a human driver and I don’t think that this will change that, granted I could be wrong it might be the safest thing on the farm, but I need to see it to believe it. I saw this tractor at the farm progress show in Boone Iowa it looked very strange and I don’t like the fact that the farmer can’t drive the tractor, since there is no steering wheel or seat or even a cab. I'm not against the idea, I just need to know more about it.