NEW HAVEN, Ky. — Last year, Quint Pottinger sold two big-frame 8000‑series John Deere tractors and two 40‑foot planters that were costing him $100,000 a year in interest. Pottinger replaced the expensive equipment with one modest 130‑horsepower tractor pulling a 20-foot planter. Using autonomous technology, Affinity Farms near New Haven became the first farm in Kentucky to plant an entire crop using a tractor without a driver, joining fewer than…
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