A project, called Hands Free Farm has been advancing agricultural automation. The near term goal is a 35-hectare section maintained by automated farm equipment.
Changes are already underway in the agricultural sector: “…GPS-guided tractors can already plow fields with only a semi-attentive farmer at the wheel.”
One question is how well received this is by farmers. The Hands Free Farm leader says farmers demand it, but one farmer said, “If you have that, it does me out of a job.”