In 2012, Heckeroth launched Solectrac Inc., a company geared towards providing 100-percent-battery-powered electric tractors. Five years later, his two models, the Compact Electric Tractor and the eUtility, became what he says were the first commercially available electric tractors in the US.

Another barrier might be cost. Hoy says the price of tractors needs to be affordable to the average farmer, but Solectrac tractors currently sell at $45,000, about a third of the price higher than current diesel models.


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The day before our shoot was to begin, I was with my uncle, who owns Meece Farms in Monticello. He and his employee were set to take two tractors to a partially harvested cornfield on the other side of town. Naturally, I followed to take pictures. When they arrived at the field, there were, already, 40 other tractors and pieces of equipment staged in straight lines.

A local farmer, Jake Moore, was arranging a tribute for his best friend, Kyle Hendrix (31), who had recently passed away from cancer. Kyle left behind a pretty young wife, two young children, and an entire community who thought the world of him.

The next morning I went with two other cousins to help line up what had now become over 60 pieces of farm equipment along the road. The sheer mass of steel began attracting attention throughout the morning as dozens of farmers moved tractors, trucks, spreaders and combines neatly along the roadside.

In the middle of harvest time, to see such an outpouring of community support was staggering. It was also telling to see every tractor, some of which may cost upwards of $400,000 was left with keys in the ignition. There was over $20 million dollars along that road and not one farmer spent a second worrying about where his tractor would be the next day.

Zero emissions is a key selling point of any plug-in vehicle. But with a diesel tractor spewing carbon and particulate volumes equal to that of 14 cars, replacing one with an electric version can have remarkably scaled impact, says Schwager, with no change in productivity.

Yet the switch to electric can still work for those on a budget. With a base price of $12,990, the Amiga, a robotic micro-tractor, offers small growers a big labor solution, one that can be scaled and tailored to accommodate a wide range of needs.

California rebates also apply to the Amiga, notes Dorn, and can reduce the cost by as much as 90 percent. Yet switching from a diesel tractor alone carries inherent savings: A full electric charge is cheaper than a tank of gas, and not having an engine eliminates maintenance costs such as particulate filter replacements, which, according to Schwager, can run nearly $3,000. (All tractors, however, require hydraulic maintenance.)

What is a more realistic number for how long the tractor will last under load? The Ford F150 Lightning has great run-time when it is empty, but as soon as you haul anything of significance, you lose about half of the range.

Since no one in the agricultural industry made parts for a tractor that big, the 85,000-pound Clark axles picked for the order, along with just about every other part on the tractor, came from either the mining or construction industries. Even then, parts had to be beefed up. Unlike a coal loader, the torque and stress on the machine would be continuous.

Our days were hard, but they were beautiful. For the first time since becoming a working mom seven years before, I had space to simply be. I wrote every morning. I read every night. We took walks to visit the cows. We picked handfuls of dandelions in the field. We ate picnics on the lawn and visited Kyle in the tractor. Everything felt smaller, slower, gentler. And I wanted more.

Despite misperceptions to the contrary, farming in the 21st century is a high-tech endeavor. We're not just talking about genetically modified crops or biotech-derived pesticides though; farm vehicles like tractors and combines are now networked to the cloud and in many cases are even capable of driving themselves. To find out more about what the modern technofarm is all about, I drove up to Clear Meadow Farm in Harford County, Maryland to meet farmer Greg Rose and his self-driving John Deeres.

Rose started using AutoTrac at Clear Meadow about 10 years ago. "It's been a huge efficiency improvement because instead of having two or three feet of overlap or leaving plants in the field, you're dead on where you need to be," Rose explained. Crops are planted and fed more accurately as a result. And because the machines are all networked and working from the same GPS-based field maps, farmers can go into a field and plant rows of crops and then go back into the field with a different machine and not run over those rows.

There are other benefits, too. "There's also a tremendous amount of convenience and it reduces the fatigue factor immediately. In the fall farmers have to drive at night with their lights on; if they don't have this they have to be very attentive to how the machine is performing in the field," Arthur said. "Plenty other things they need to be focused on other than driving, so it makes their life much simpler than before. In fact I've talked to farmers who've been farming for 50 years, and they will not get in a vehicle today unless it has auto track."

Having his machines synced to each other helps with this efficiency. Because every machine knows where every other machine is, they can cover fields with fewer gaps. And come harvest time with several combines working in a field, the guy in the tractor can see which one to prioritize. "You never want them just sitting because that drives down production," Rose said.

For Rose and the other techno-farmers out there, GPS-guided networked farm machines that you can manage from an iPad have been a massive boon to their way of life. While a farmer's day still starts before dawn and can end long after midnight, at least now technology is helping spread the load.

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This tractor -- CNH calls it the Autonomous Concept Vehicle -- has one obvious difference compared with more conventional models: there's no cab for a driver. Instead, it comes equipped with cameras, radar and GPS, allowing a farmer to remotely monitor planting and harvesting via an app on a tablet computer, the company's Brand President Andreas Klauser said in an interview Wednesday as crowds gathered around the machine to snap photographs.

While offering efficiencies, technological advances promise to reduce a farmer's traditional reliance on gut instinct. Some have expressed anxiety about corporations holding onto data gathered from their fields. London-based CNH would face headwinds in getting row-crop farmers to adopt its new technology, but it could gain a foothold in horticulture, Ann Duignan, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase in New York, wrote in an Aug. 30 report.

Dealing with the legal implications of self-driving tractors is one reason why it could take three years before they're commercially available, Klauser said. An example he gave is how a farmer would go about moving the tractor from one field to another that may be across a road, since no one is physically driving it.

He declined to disclose how much it has cost to build the tractor on display in Iowa, or how much such a machine might sell for, if it ever moves beyond the concept stage. Case will analyze farmer feedback on its prototype.

Ever wanted to learn about the steamy world of online farmer dating, mango farmers in Malawi working for McDonald's, or hunting wild pigs in Louisiana with homemade drones? Us too. Which is why we were excited to see

Modern Farmer, a new quarterly magazine for "window-herb growers, career farmers, people who have chickens, people who want to have chickens and anyone who wants to know more about how food reaches their plate."

The magazine, which launched this week, speaks for itself, but we were curious about who, exactly, this "modern farmer" might be, how much they care about eating the food they're growing, and how a magazine like this even came to exist. So we went to the source--

Ann Marie Gardner, who used to work at Monocle and the New York Times T: Travel magazine, is Modern Farmer's editor-in-chief, and she was nice enough to answer some of our questions.

Who is the Modern Farmer?

AMG: It's the third generation farmer who grew up on a farm, it's the people who have left cities to farm, and it's the people who might dream about farming, and they grow basil on their windowsill or fire escape, or they have a weekend house and they do it on the weekends. It encapsulates a lot of people, from farmers to aspirational farmers.

Which one are you?

AMG: Good question. I admire farmers, and I'm really self-aware about what I don't know. My lack of knowledge about things that I think are really important drove this. I live in the country, and just to realize your total lack of skills is not a great feeling. When I moved out here, a bat flew into my house, and I was like a typical New Yorker, I was screaming and hiding behind the curtain until my neighbor came over and got the bat out of my house. I'm still embarrassed about that. I wanted to be braver! Now I have dogs, and I've had to take deer limbs and dead animals out of their mouths, so I've toughened up. 17dc91bb1f

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