Source: Brad Haire, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 10/11/17

From planting to harvest, no person stepped a foot on the 2.5 acres of barley. Robots and drones handled the scouting and the field work. The project called Hands Free Hectare is collaboration between Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions based in the United Kingdom. According to a statement by the groups, the project “aimed to be the first in the world to plant, tend and harvest a crop with only autonomous vehicles and drones.”

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