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Deere said farmers can do tillage on their own fields with its autonomy upgrade, and that autumn 2025 would be its biggest season yet for the number of machines running.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets Autonomous 8R / 9R tractors and autonomy kits's stage
What the source says
“This fall will be our biggest season yet in terms of the number of machines running,”
What it means
Autonomous 8R / 9R tractors and autonomy kits, from John Deere, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Autonomous 8R / 9R tractors and autonomy kits
- At CES 2025 Deere showed a second-generation autonomy kit with 16 cameras for a 360-degree view, and extended autonomy to the larger 9RX tractor.
- Deere said the retrofit kits fit 9R and 9RX tractors from model year 2022 on, and newer 8R and 8RX tractors.
- Bloomberg reported that farmers were already paying Deere to use its automation for tillage work in autumn 2022.
- At the CES tech show in Las Vegas, John Deere showed a driverless version of its 8R row-crop tractor and called it commercially available.