Farming Without a Farmer

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Teaching Drones to Farm; Equipment makers develop automated vehicles to sow land and harvest crop. Wall Street Journal, Sept 20, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903374004576580921448752138.html

Note:
(a) Kinze Manufacturing, Inc
http://www.kinze.com/
("In 1965 at 21 years of age, with five dollars in his checkbook, a $3,655 loan from the local bank and a wagon-load of confidence and determination, a young man named Kinzenbaw starts a welding and repair shop in Ladora, Iowa")

(i) Ladora is in the western suburb of Iowa City, Iowa.
(ii) Watch two video clips (the top one for harvesting system and the bottom one for planting system) in the left column of the home page. Please do not watch the two video clips in Jaybridge website (below), which are full of talk.
(b) Jaybridge Robotics
http://www.jaybridge.com/
(based in Cambridge)



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