2 or 3 years ago, I had the privilege of touring Kinze Manufacturing and then we all go to go over to John's place and see his private collection. Impressive doesn't begin to describe it. John came out and talked to us and said he was working on an autonomous planting system. He didn't use GPS, too unreliable. I think he said that they set a laser type controller in each corner of the field, drive the tractor and planter around the perimeter of the field and then turn the tractor loose. It was set up so if anything went wrong, it would shut the tractor down and the operator had to check for what was the problem. His theory was that one man could operate 3 tractors and 12 row planters at the same time. He could be filling one planter while the other 2 were running as opposed to having a 48 or 60 row planter and taking a hour or so to fill all the boxes, 3 smaller tractors compared to one extra large tractor. The filled planter could start planting anywhere in the field and the rows would be correct. He said they had planted over 1000 acres with the system that year. Haven't heard anymore about it since then. If anyone can make it work, it will be John Kinzenbaw.
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