Grain Ops: Grain Elevator of the Future
Emerging technology will make it attractive for farmers to adopt autonomous vehicle technology and send their grain trucks from the field to the grain elevator without having to rely on a human driver, writes Dirk Maier for World Grain. One company is already field testing autonomous grain shuttles that pull alongside the combine harvester and take harvested grain to the grain truck parked alongside the field’s edge.
It is conceivable that combine harvesters and autonomous grain trucks will be networked with the grain receiving operation of the local grain elevator. This would allow for timed arrival of trucks on-site, unloading them and returning them to the field in a manner that optimizes the entire harvesting system for all farmers that intend to deliver to their local elevator. This has the potential to make seasonal grain harvests more coordinated, predictive, and efficient.
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