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A new autonomous planter is helping fix the tight ag labor problem

May 22, 2023 02:18 PM • 
RFD-TV News Staff, Currey McCullough

Researchers at the University of Nebraska are working to bring more efficiency to the fields at a time when farm labor remains tight.

Market Journal introduces us to the brains behind a project capable of planting, weeding, and spraying.

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