We were talking the other day about how farming has changed, and how computers were in the cabs of the tractors. Well…
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Is the world ready for the farmerless tractor?

CES is the trade show for cool kids, where the future of technology struts its stuff for a few days in Vegas each year. So it’s news when a star of this futuristic show is one of America’s oldest industrial corporations — so old that cast iron is part of its innovation history.

John Deere was a Vermont blacksmith whose village failed in the economic misery of the 1830s. He followed his customers west to Illinois, where they discovered that Midwestern mud clung to their cast-iron plows. Stopping every few feet to free a plow was no way to get a crop in. Deere created a “self-scouring” steel plow — cutting-edge technology worthy of the name.

Almost two centuries later, Deere’s corporate descendants were on the Strip, elbow to elbow with the crypto cowboys and mavens of the metaverse, touting the company’s latest advance in tillage technology: an autonomous tractor. No farmer required. It runs via a smartphone app.