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The Future of Agriculture is Built by Farmers.
​​Case IH continues to evolve farming technology for better in-field productivity and to meet producers’ sustainability goals.​

Five Categories of Automation for Agriculture

Through extensive Customer Driven Product Design research, we’ve found that current and future technology needs fall into five categories of automation for agricultural field applications. Learn about the kinds of activities associated with each category below.

Five Categories of Automation for Agriculture

Through extensive Customer Driven Product Design research, we’ve found that current and future technology needs fall into five categories of automation for agricultural field applications. Learn about the kinds of activities associated with each category below.
Delivering more usable power you can depend on is possible because of the exclusive Quadtrac positive-drive design. Lugs that interlock with bars on the drive wheel and track. That’s because a positive drive is continuous at all times, even in a wet or slippery spot. The Quadtrac positive drive adjusts automatically under transport or light loads that reduce wear, friction and heat – and increases durability.

Category 1: Guidance

From planting to harvesting, guidance can provide farming operation efficiencies while an operator still runs a vehicle. Technologies — like Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) AccuGuide ™ autoguidance a​nd AFS AccuTurn ™ — help maintain row-to-row vehicle accuracy in the field, reducing overlaps and skips. Ultimately, these technologies help save fuel, decrease labor costs and reduce operator fatigue while maximizing crop yield.​​​
  • Less ground pressure to reduce ground compaction
  • 35% more traction and higher drive comfort means a return to harvest sooner after rain
  • Smoother running
  • Maintenance-friendly thanks to oil level inspection glasses in the rollers
  • Safety & ease of transport on the road: with 61 cm tracks the combine is only 3.49 m wide.
  • Less time spent manoeuvring.
  • Improved hill-climbing

Category 2: Coordination & Optimization

Vehicle and environmental data are used together to develop an information hub that allows for fieldwide communication between manned equipment. Case IH equipment with ISOBUS Class 3 functionality is one example. This technology allows implements to control tractor functions like ground speed and rear PTO for increased performance and throughput.

Category 3: Operator Assisted Autonomy

This technology allows operators to focus on the planter or implement behind them as their vehicle drives itself. This allows the driver to perform activities like assessing a seedbed’s agronomic potential from the tractor cab while simply monitoring automated functions — and only providing backup and support when needed.​​​

Category 4: Supervised Autonomy

Producers can provide in-field supervision while unmanned vehicles perform designated tasks. With this, supervised autonomy takes productivity and efficiency to a new level. Would-be operators are empowered to monitor their vehicles’ performance and simultaneously accomplish other strategic, in-field tasks. Equipment with this autonomous capability have GPS precision down to sub-inch accuracy and intermediate level sensing as well as perception to avoid environmental obstacles.​

Category 5: Full Autonomy

Full autonomy allows vehicles to be operated with remote supervision — such as from the farm office — or via artificial intelligence. Additionally, vehicles with full autonomy can account for weather and moisture levels, further serving to increase a farming operation’s productivity and efficiency.​​​​

Researching and Piloting Autonomous Technology in the Field

The only way to validate on-farm uses for autonomous technology is with field pilots where farmers use it on their own farm, integrate it into their own fleet and conduct their everyday activities.

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