Ep. 211 - John Deere’s Autonomous Tillage Solution
Agriculture Technology Podcast
RDO Equipment Co.
4.2 • 48 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Join host Tony Kramer on the Agriculture Technology Podcast as he sits down with Michael Porter, Go-to-Market Manager for Large Tractors and Tillage at John Deere, to explore John Deere's revolutionary autonomous tillage solution. In this episode, they discuss how this cutting-edge technology can enhance farming operations by increasing efficiency and productivity. Michael explains the benefits for farmers, from small operations to large-scale farms, including reallocating labor, optimizing time management and reducing operational costs. He details how the autonomous tractor technology works, including the necessary equipment and preparation steps. They also cover the compatibility of existing John Deere tractors and tillage tools with the autonomous solution and highlight future developments and new autonomy-ready tools. Ready to hear about the future of farming? Stay tuned to learn all about John Deere's new autonomous tractor technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology podcast, and I'm sitting down with |
| 0:06.7 | agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today, |
| 0:12.3 | tomorrow, and into the future. In this episode, I talk with Michael Porter about John Deere's |
| 0:18.4 | Autonomous Tillage Solution. With that, let's autonomous tillage solution. |
| 0:24.1 | With that, let's dive into the show. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm excited to welcome back, Michael Porter, to talk about John Deere's autonomous tillage solution. So before we dive into it, Michael, why don't you remind our listeners a little bit about |
| 0:37.1 | who you are, what you do, listeners a little bit about who you are, |
| 0:38.2 | what you do, and how you got to where you are today? Yeah, absolutely. I'm happy to be on. |
| 0:42.9 | So, Michael Porter, I'm the go-to-market manager for large tractors and village for John Deere. |
| 0:48.0 | I've been with John Deere, just a little bit over 10 years in a variety of different roles. |
| 0:52.6 | I've been happy to be in this role for the last year. |
| 0:55.4 | Awesome. Well, again, welcome back to the show. You and I got to chat a little bit at the |
| 1:01.5 | 2024 commodity classic talking about those new 9 RX high horsepower beasts that are out there |
| 1:10.0 | in the wild now. |
| 1:11.6 | Autonomous tillage. |
| 1:13.4 | How do we need to go about thinking about this type of a solution? |
| 1:18.1 | What is this going to do? |
| 1:19.9 | And how is it going to help the farmers out there that are interested in this type of a |
| 1:25.4 | solution? |
| 1:26.1 | It's a tractor that's actually going to go run in a field without an operator in it, |
| 1:30.5 | and it's going to do your killage work for you, whether it be in the spring or in the fall. |
| 1:36.7 | And as for the next part of that, which is what does it mean for customers and why, |
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