Farms and Farm Machinery

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In an emerging autonomous landscape, the post and wire fences that used to define a farm’s boundaries are being replaced by digital ‘geofences’, and it is critical to ensure that these important pieces of precision agriculture infrastructure are accurately measured.

John Deere demonstrated its first fully autonomous 8R tractor in the US in January, and boundaries are the critical digital infrastructure required to guide it. Paired with guidance lines, these virtual geofences enable the machine

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