Tractor of the Future...

Valtra Robo Trac is a semi-autonomous tractor for vineyards, coffee growers, orchards and nurseries. Robot is able to do pre-programmed tasks and does not require human intervention.

The color is good!

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I'd have to agree with R.W. on this

To bad it's an AGCO product. Valtra is a good reminder of the chaos that is AGCO. You can get a Valtra in what seven different colors including silver, green, red, orange, etc. Why couldn't they have done that with AGCO? Anyway, like I said. To bad it's an AGCO product or should I say concept.

Leave it to AGCO to come up with a tractor few people want and even fewer can afford!

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please dont say that dave some electronic stuff is good but I will not be one to use self automated tractors sometimes i wish i could go back in time back when tractores were tractors NOT COMPUTERS!

RW. Actually driving a horse while working a land is part of farming!

You cannot stand in the way of progress.

I agree that it would not be much fun though.

One thing about a well trained team is that you didn't have to turn a crank, pull a lever, or push a pedal to change speed or direction, you just talked to them. Like while picking corn by hand, you didn't have to stop picking, climb on the tractor, start it, put it in gear let out the clutch, move it a wagon's length, then park it, climb down and go back to picking, all you had to say was "git up", followed by "whoa" without breaking your picking rhythm. So I've observed, not by doing. But I have worked horses a little.

One bad thing was that when the horse figured out it could hurt you really bad without trying that it sometimes did, like leaning on you in the stall or standing on your toes.

I suspect horse caused injuries on the pre tractor farm were regular and why the horse replacement tractors like the Fordson sold so well. They probably cost less to by than it cost to feed the teams they replaced. I recall seeing that something like a third of a farm's crops went to feed and pasture the horses. That's a lot of expense.

Gerald J.

I'm not being pessimistic but that's been the result of our national farm policy. 40 acres and a mule, 80 acres an a team, 120 acres and a hired man, 160 acres and a tractor, no horses or hired men. In the 60's 640 acres was a good sized farm by the early 80's you "needed" a 1000 acres acres to make a good living.

Today most of the few neighbors who farm have 1500 or 2000 acres or more, or like me work off the farm to supplement their "hobby". The big guys around me farm 5000 acres or more and are always looking for the next piece of ground even if they cut somebodies throat to get it. They drive 40 or 50 miles for a couple hundred acres, big machinery and GPS helps them get it done in a timley manor. They'll be the ones who will buy these tractors.

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