Ag machinery
May. 3rd, 2025 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI mentioned platooning on Friday evening, and then had to explain myself. I don’t even remember why I was talking about it, but I left with a question about whether anyone was doing platooning in ag machinery. Answer: yes, John Deere was experimenting with GridCon pre-pandemic. Not clear where it has gone from there. They also had a battery approach with Sesam, and that’s made a bit more progress, maybe.
They were apparently at CES this year:
https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-9RX/
John Deere has its own problems, and that has left an opening for others. Monarch has all kinds of interesting things going on.
https://www.dairyherd.com/news/monarchs-mk-v-dairy-tractor-rolls-out-autonomous-feed-pushing
Fuel or battery, autonomous feed pushing. Who knew!
There’s a lot more out there about electric tractors, autonomous or otherwise, mostly aimed at lawn mowing and hobby farms. This may be a big disruption developing. Also, if you like to play video games, farming might be the future for you. Supervising all this stuf. . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/04/27/electric-tractors-climate-change-wine-vineyard-farming/
They were apparently at CES this year:
https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-9RX/
John Deere has its own problems, and that has left an opening for others. Monarch has all kinds of interesting things going on.
https://www.dairyherd.com/news/monarchs-mk-v-dairy-tractor-rolls-out-autonomous-feed-pushing
Fuel or battery, autonomous feed pushing. Who knew!
There’s a lot more out there about electric tractors, autonomous or otherwise, mostly aimed at lawn mowing and hobby farms. This may be a big disruption developing. Also, if you like to play video games, farming might be the future for you. Supervising all this stuf. . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/04/27/electric-tractors-climate-change-wine-vineyard-farming/