'Learning journey': Farm autonomy on the frontier but hurdles to overcome

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CNH Industrial precision farming specialist Jake Dumesny highlighted several products that help with the pathway to autonomy, at last week's field day hosted by Boekeman Machinery. Video by Darren O'Dea.

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00:00The questions that I get asked a lot is, you know, how far away is autonomy?

00:05And autonomy is one of those things that, as they spoke about before,

00:11autonomy is classified as steering, like a tractor.

00:13So it's about understanding the level of autonomy

00:16and really where people are ready to go with their farming practices

00:20because, yes, they may want to have a fully autonomous machine,

00:24but the infrastructure in Australia is not quite there yet.

00:28And also some of the farmers aren't ready.

00:32So it's about, for me, it's really about pushing, building a really good base

00:35to be able to move forward with the autonomy path.

00:37With connectivity, especially in South Australia and WA, it's not fantastic.

00:44And obviously the biggest thing that any autonomous machine is going to need

00:48is to get satellites and to be able to get the corrections.

00:51So the minute you lose connectivity, the machine's going to stop.

00:58So that's a big path.

00:59Obviously there's products out there now that are helping overcome that barrier,

01:05but we're still not 100% there yet.

01:08Exactly.

01:10Okay.

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