Autonomous Farming Powers the Future of American Sugar
Clewiston, FL – U.S. Sugar today announced the launch of the largest commercial use of autonomous tractors in the American sugar industry, deploying a fleet of unmanned John Deere tractors within its 255,000 acres of farmland in South Florida. The autonomous fleet is fitted with American technology developed by Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) and secured with support from Florida John Deere distributor Everglades Equipment Group.
U.S. Sugar’s new autonomous fleet includes four John Deere 8R Series tractors and one John Deere 9R Series tractor operating in sugarcane fields up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The tractors, which are traditionally manually operated, are fitted with ASI’s Vehicle Automation Kit (VAK), to operate autonomously with oversight from a central command station, where a single operator will oversee multiple vehicles at once using Mobius, ASI’s autonomous fleet management platform.