Source: Mike Wilson, FARM FUTURES, 7/17/17



Robots, autonomous vehicles and bug-carrying drones are just the beginning. Sure, John Deere’s plow helped farmers plant the prairie, and Cyrus McCormick’s reaper enabled the harvest. But you won’t believe what inventors, engineers and venture capitalists are dreaming up today to solve agriculture’s biggest problems. Think: water scarcity, human labor shortages, cloud-based data programs, crop scouting drones, veggie-picking robots, autonomous machines…

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