we shared the story of Quint Pottinger<\/a>, who used the Sabanto kit to autonomously plant over 800 corn acres, many of which were no-tilled into thick cereal rye.\n<\/p>\n\n Sabanto CEO and founder Craig Rupp tells us other farmers have saved big money on labor and equipment costs with autonomy, and 3 years from now, the technology is going to be everywhere.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be mainstream. And the future I see is multiple smaller systems versus one large system. It makes complete sense to me. You go out with a 400-horsepower machine versus four smaller 100-horsepower machines. When you unleash a 400-horespower tractor into a field and the field gets done in two hours, you\u2019re going to be spending the day chasing the tractor, moving it from one to the other. Whereas smaller systems, they\u2019re going to take a little bit longer and you have redundancy. It\u2019s more scalable. I get more acres. I can just get one smaller system as opposed to spending $2 million for a large system. They\u2019re easier to work on. They\u2019re less complicated. They\u2019re more fuel efficient. And that\u2019s the future I see three years from now. You know what? If I go back three years and if I said there\u2019s going to be a day when a farmer\u2019s going to farm all his corn acres autonomously, everyone would\u2019ve laughed at me. If I would\u2019ve said it a year ago, they would\u2019ve said, \u2018No, it\u2019s not going to happen.\u2019 It happened already. Quint (Pottinger).\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Rupp formed a farmer advisory board of about 24 farmers. They meet with COO Corey Spaetti once a month to receive updates on the technology, and give their feedback on how it can be improved.\n<\/p>\n
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