The combine harvester and its faithful companion: the tractor with the transfer wagon follows autonomously. Two machines – one driver.
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Of course, the technology in agriculture can no longer be the way we used to know it. Digitization and automation are taking hold on a large scale. But what we saw now was a shock. Visit to the field.
AThe first thing to do is to report an error. Anyone who was born on a farm, spent their childhood and youth there and worked there might think that they are familiar with agricultural engineering, that they are a specialist due to their origins and still have an idea today. Even if that was decades ago.
What a misjudgment.
This becomes immediately clear when you climb steep steps into the cab of a towering 470 hp tractor and are confronted with the shocking sight of a spaceship cockpit. If you immerse yourself for a day in a world in which the baler tells the tractor how fast to drive, the fertilizer spreader pulls its tracks unmanned, the combine harvester whistles for the self-propelled grain transporter. farming today.
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