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Technology has made running a farm ever more efficient and far less labor intensive. The backbreaking work of sowing, reaping, threshing, and winnowing crops is mostly done by machines. But these tools have required a farmer to steer them—until now. Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg, Iowa, has produced autonomous tractors and other equipment that sow and reap all by themselves.












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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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