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Wait, who's driving that tractor? This 2021 photo provided by John Deere shows an autonomous tractor plowing a field, without a driver, on a farm in Blue Earth, Minn. (Bill Krzyzanowski/John Deere ...
See the Fendt 936 Vario tractor in action alongside the Lemken plough and press. This powerful combination delivers ...
Finally, Monarch says it developed its electric tractor with the goal of 20-plus years of continuous service life. That’s respectable, and not just for battery-powered machinery.
Modern farming looks pretty neat, if you ask me, and it's coming next fall for $50,000. Monarch will take $500 refundable deposits before the first units ship out in 2021. Volvo VNR Electric semi ...
Machines do, and people are there to supervise them,” says Mark Schwager, co-founder and president of San Francisco Bay Area-based Monarch Tractor, which recently debuted the first-ever, autonomous ...
2018 is the Year of the Tractor at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and staff at the museum are plowing deep into America’s agricultural past to bring up a ...
I use a tractor to load the manure, bale the hay and do heavy field work like plowing and disking.” Pat Miller, 160 acres, Montana: “I raise horses and cattle, restore wagons and work an ...
A piece of agricultural history came to life Saturday, April 12, just east of Central City, where a group of vintage farm enthusiasts gathered for an old-time plowing bee at the Lloyd H. Brown ...
Plowing and disking a field results in soil with broken structure lying atop a heavily compressed plow pan. To many people, no-till farming appears to be a tremendous step forward for agriculture.
Gene Gruber has to stop and think when asked how many U.S. plowing championships have been won by members of his family, a three-generation dynasty. "Seventeen. It's been 17," he says after a few ...