What will autonomous tech mean for crops and farmers who harvest them?

What will autonomous tech mean for crops and farmers who harvest them?

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This audio file is brought to you byLoading audio file, please wait. (photo courtesy: USDA/Preston Keres) Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet .Earlier this month, Ford installed an automated underground system that uses a solar-powered pump […]

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