A Real Farmer's Opinion on Autonomous Tractors 

There is a reason you are planting on your birthday over & over! It's because you love what you do and it shows in these videos. Thanks to you & farmers everywhere.

I stumbled upon your channel and am really enjoying what you are showing. I am in California, but my mom was born in Callaway (looks to be about an hour away from where you are). For generations my family were farmers in Nebraska. My grandparents left partly because my uncle was deaf and California had better schools for deaf kids at the time. When my grandmother was a child, her favorite part of farming was walking behind the horses and holding the plow steady. I love seeing how technology has made farming more comfortable, faster, and more productive. I feel like I’m connecting with my roots when I watch your videos, and who knows, maybe our great great grandparents knew each other! Thanks for making these videos and keep up the good work!

Happy Birthday Laura! Yeah, we definitely still need farmers! Thanks for all you you do! Totally understand being sore after a day in the tractor! Especially lifting all those seed bags💪

This video is one of your best works. I was riveted to the screen, absorbing the tips and tricks of planting down to the smallest detail. Your personality shone through and through. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA.

We learn so much from this channel!! Both of us grew up around farms, only when we were children, so seeing the equipment and how things are run just takes things to another level. Your videos are fun and informative, so thank you so much for them all! Hope you had an awesome b-day!! And Grant, the most chilled and professional worker I've ever seen, you're damn cool, showing us important yet overlooked stuff giving even more info.. Thank you both!

For some reason, this has been my favorite video of this season! So interesting and fun to watch. Also, I just commented to my wife last night, as I was finishing up mowing my yard, how good the lilacs smelled. So I know what you were experiencing with your grandma's lilac bushes! Best summer scent.

Happy birthday, Laura! And may you have many many more to come! (and p.s. doing things for yourself like getting your nails done are all part of taking care of number one, so that you can keep taking care of all of the things that you love!)

You have pleasantly exposed me to so much that I didn't realize about farming. I love your skills and your personality for sure. Thank You.

Always!! With a positive attitude!! Regardless what kind of weather , time or day , it is plus her enthusiasm to explain every single steps 🖤fabulous!!

You are such a happy person!! I'm in the automation business, but I think you were exceptional in your descriptions.

A belated happy birthday, Laura, it is always a joy to see your videos. You are correct, nothing can replace the personal touch in the cab. Sound changes will tell you if something is not right, no computer can do that in a tractor. Stay fit and healthy, saying that it was good to hear you say grandpa was out and about, I hope he is doing well.

All your smart equipment amazes me and how much you need to know to use it. You have an amazing channel! Thanks for all you both do.

Happy Belated Birthday Laura on today of May 21, 2022! Hope you had a wonderful birthday at some point in time. Amazing how quickly your channel continues to grow. Happy and Safe Planting! -Bob...

Love how you always include detail in your explanations….things no one else thinks to tell us non-farmers. Even how to rip open the seed bags….so cool. Thank you for everything you do….because I know it’s plenty. I love ❤️ you!!! Grammy

I don't really know why I find this so fascinating, but it really is. Please keep these videos coming!

Always great to see you both sharing your hard labor with us. The many accomplishments each and every day must make you feel great. Even if it’s a little accident like Grant had. No harm no foul, parts can be replaced. The are lessons to learn and I’m glad you show both the good and the not so good. Please stay safe. Happy belated birthday Laura. May life for you and your family continue to be blessed and beautiful

Happy belatd birthday Laura! Thanks for constantly spreading that knowledge, there will ALWAYS be the need for a human touch when it comes to farming, for sure! As a side note, those guns prove you aren't just "sitting" all day. Keep up the great content! 💪🏽 😉👍🏼

I drove a CAT 777 rock truck on a coal mine when I was younger. I definitely get what you're saying. They're automatic with power steering so the trucks are very nimble, but you feel like you're driving in a house, being so high in the air and the weight under your tiers, compared to the smaller Bell or Volvo articulating trucks.

It's always such a great time seeing your beautiful smile and great aditude, most people don't know what it takes to produce food (it just magically appears in the store) great video thanks for all the work .

Thanks Laura and Grant for the content and letting us into your lives. On to the next.

Happy belated Birthday honey. You are a joy to watch. Your videos are always great. God Bless you.

There are a couple of things you can do if the beeping is too loud, if it's a single hole over the speaker you can put a piece of tape over it. If it's more of a grate, a piece or two of paper taped over the opening (I use a pad of sticky notes placed on top of the speaker on my radio at work because even on low volume it's too loud).

Happy birthday late Laura and Gregg, your patience dealing with fixing the planter after hitting accidently the pole is in itself a great gift to your wife! Hope you had a great time celebrating. God bless all the time! Cheers

Some years ago I passed through Nebraska and was astonished at the scope of agriculture. Thank to this, I now know how it gets done. Thanks for the education! May 18 here.

Happy 11 days belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!!!!! I hope you had a great day! The nails looks nice.

Gratulere med dagen, du lager mange fine videoer 🤩🤩

Very informative video and Happy Birthday farm girl!

Being somebody that lives in san diego near the beach. this is so rad to watch. you guys are putting in work!! Can't wait to learn more from you guys.

Happy Birthday and many many more birthday's to come your way!!

"Open the tractor door, Hal" Hal replies,"I'm sorry Laura. I can't do that." How tractors evolve under artificial intelligence.

Laura you are most defiantly a real farmer! I'm happy for you in the pride you have in your craft. thank you for the great content !

Thanks for sharing your days with us. for some reason it’s very relaxing to watch.

Happiest of Birthdays to you Laura!! I hope your day was great and you took a little break and was able to chillax! Love the content!

Good to hear gramps is doing well. 😊 Place a piece of tape over the beeper speaker it might make it quieter

What really amazes me Miss Laura, with all those monitors and the info they are displaying, you actually know what to do next and quickly execute it. WOW!! AMAZING!!!! LOVE IT I DO!!!!!

Happy Birthday Laura. Thanks for Sharing!

From someone who used to do that whole process manually, the new technology is amazing and so much nicer. It's so nice to see someone from the next generation stay involved and make it their life also. So many of my friends are having to sell out because none of their children want to come back and take over.

Wish I knew sooner. Happy belated birthday, Laura! Mine's just a few days earlier on the 8th. I love Raising Cane's! We just got one near me in Illinois a year or so ago. Usually, I'll get the box combo so there's leftovers for the next day!

I really enjoy your videos and watching your mastery of operating the tractors and complex gear. Recently downsized our home and had to sell my 4320 cab tractor which broke my heart and I believe my dog Maggie’s as well as she loved to go for tractor rides with me. Anyways your amazing!

Happy birthday :-) You are supervising the whole process. And when the process halts for whatever reason, you bring it back on track. The knowledge you have about the process makes it work efficiently, because stops in the process are kept so short. If I stepped into the tractor, I could probably make it run, even lower the planter, but for the rest, I would call you.. ( or your dad :-) )

I love you and Grant and the way you guys trying to keep farming alive glad you have the technology now I didn't have when my family farmed was all open tractors God bless you guys and stay safe

Really enjoy watching you planting. I haven’t been watching you guys much recently. Ukraine and my son deployed with his unit months ago. Allies ops etc. Just thinking how my cousins planted corn, wheat etc in the late 70’s. Large hectares but not flat land. Quite a contrast and no computer technology all eyeballs and brain overdrive. After school I would drive a truck loading from harvester then to the dryer’s. Cousins operation sheep/cattle/grains was big then now a lot bigger. Their kids who are about your parents generation took over and now their kids are working the farms. ( your age) They invited me down last year so I’m thinking about visiting this summer. They have similar John Deere equipment to your farms. I just want a ride in one of those tractors🙃aroha from NZ.

Happy birthday Laura! Greetz from fryslan, the Netherlands.. We love your stories about farming!

Happy belated birthday! So glad you stopped to smell the lilacs, my favorite scented flower. I cherish your conversations with me. You are keen-eyed and sharp-witted with a brain more powerful than all your computers. You monitor so much - way beyond multitasking. I find great solace in experiencing vicariously planting season on Laura Farms. I love your passion in living and farming.

Happy Birthday Laura, maybe you could try putting a bit of heavy tape over where the loud beep comes out. 🙂

Absolutely right Laura - I work on the electronic system development for one of these tractor companies (won’t say which one 🤫😉), and fully autonomous tractors are some way off, but automation, precision farming, telematics, data and alternative fuels are all getting a lot of attention / investment and progressing rapidly. It’s an exciting time for agtech, we just need to make sure it delivers value and is genuinely useful for the users. Love the channel!!

This is one of your top vlogs, where you explained all the specific tasks the tractor/ seeder does, while you explained why you needed to be vigilant in observing & knowing what the machinery was doing at any time. This is not an easy job, and you are a superstar!! I love your channel!

Happy Belated Birthday Laura,hope you had a amazing day!

Finally got caught up on all your videos last night. Pretty interesting stuff you & yours do to feed the people! I do have one question with the ever rising cost of diesel do you buy in bulk and do you get a discount or set pricing year round.

Automation happens in stages. It’s not too difficult to imagine a comfy air conditioned room in your house decked out like the tractor cab. It’s not impossible for sensors to detect the failure of some seeding or harvesting operation. Sure, it may be necessary to hop on a quad bike and perform a fix, but how often you need to do it is the question. If something goes wrong once a day, is that too often? Also, remember that this virtual tractor cab can be scaled up with almost no effort to run multiple real tractors at once. Everyone thinks their job can’t be done by machines, even up to the point the machines are doing 98% of the work.

Great Video! Happy B-Day Laura! To hell with Autonomous Farming, it has its place but not so much in your fields. We've all smashed into stuff Grant, your a good man. Thank you both for what you do for America!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Happy bday. Hope your season goes good.

I feel “old” saying this, and I guess I’m not ancient, but if you and Grant are any representation of the farming youth of today (and I pray you are) we still have hope as a nation! Well done, you two!

Autonomous equipment only works as long as there is a human around to monitor and fix things that don’t go as programmed. While AI has come a long way in identifying problems, the realm of a machine then fixing them remains pretty limited. The bigger the machine, the faster it operates, the more it produces, the more important it is to catch and fix glitches ASAP, which can’t be done from sitting in a Lazy Boy recliner 20 miles away. Of course with all the computerized equipment today, I constantly worry that we are one EMP away from entering the stone age.

My grandparents were farmers and they had lilac bushes. I always enjoyed seeing and smelling the lilacs in the backyard after a long hot day of playing and helping my grandparents.

Wow, thanks for the video!! Being from the city I never get to see how farmers do their work. Really fascinating!!! Thanks so much cause I love to eat!!! Appreciate you so much!!!

first time watching your channel. Just a few things that stood out to me - I am not a farmer at all: holy moly - agriculture is super important und I appreciate your work so much but a field that size without trees, bushes or at least some natural stripes every now and then is soo ecologically dead. No room for insects, birds or a few rodents. And isnt the wind a problem for your soil? You must have so much erosion and sand storms :-O It just does not seem to be very sustainable to me. But as I said - thanks to every farmer for what you do. And also, you are super adorable :) cheers from the other side of the atlantic lake

“Okay. Well, right now the world doesn't need more engineers. We didn't run out of planes, or television sets. We ran out of food. The world needs farmers. Good farmers, like you.”

Great information Laura, and Happy birthday!!

Happy Birthday Laura may all of your wishes come true!

There's definitely things AI can do really well, and some it can't. Processing extremely large amounts of data quickly and arriving at the best solution based on a set criteria is something a machine can do better than any biological being. A calculator is a simple example; internet databases are a more modern one. Doing repetitive motion is another great machine advantage. What they fail at are things that require human dexterity. So making an AI robot to go into someone's house to fix a leaking pipe in a timely manner - extremely extremely difficult. Or, like you said, fishing out that one branch in a specific row in a massive field - very tricky. So there are definitely advantages and limitations to machines, but overall, I'd say anything driving-related is probably on it's way to becoming automated. If you told a farmer in the 1900s that in the future there'd be a giant, wheeled machine planting thousands of seeds by itself, he'd probably laugh. So a lot of tech that seems outlandish or impractical now might be evolve to be pretty useful 50, 100, or 500 years down the road.

Fighting 8.3% inflation (more like 35%) with a 1% Fed funds interest rate is like stopping a forest fire with a bucket of water. Folks prepare accordingly. Make investment in other not to depend on the government for funds

love your video they inspired me a lot so i wanted to say thank you for being there for me.

Well Happy belated Birthday, much appreciation for the work you and all farmers do.

Good job Laura, and happy late birthday,,also all those all day workouts show , you are looking fabulous

City boy doing city things gets a youtube video suggestion and clicks on a whim. Glad I did! Heart warming to see the wholesome family supporting and looking for each other while working together.

Great video and great job with your planting

This is a world apart from what we do, growing stuff using hand tools and it's fascinating. Thank you for sharing how to plant using a tractor.

Thanks for another great video Laura, and I hope you had an awesome birthday! You might want to keep a pair of those comfy foam padded ear protectors to put on when things start beeping loudly, they're easy to take off after the sound is over

It's wonderful to see how much you love your job.

So delightful... Happy Birthday... So fun to watch your channel - Look forward to every post...

I watch a couple different you tubers farmers. From South Dakota it is amazing all the hard work that you do I wish all the ppl cld see that and realize what goes into your every day life. Thank you 🙏 for all your hard work. I’m sure with prices the way they are it isn’t getting any easier.

I spent alot of time on my family's several farms while growing up in the 70's and 80's. Wolverton and Doran Minnesota. It looks like where you are.

Hi Laura love your videos and you happy belated birthday farmers will never be replaced !

15:00 i got to say as a crane operator your words at minute 15 mark got directly to the hart and the sad part is that 99% of the people do not understand this type of effort

Great explanations...always helpful to know while we watch..Great video Laura..

can't get over how much operating the equipment is like flying an airplane, and the HUGE scale or size of this stuff, pivots, tractors, attachments, is quite amazing. Feel for Grant of all the places the post could of struck it hit a vulnerable spot... geeeeezzzeee. Fascinating video.

Unexpected YT recommended video. But I found it very interesting. Interesting to see new generation farmers. Never seen such a cool tractor. Field is HHUUUGGEEEE. Super cool to watch on a sunday shift.

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Laura!!!

When a person is really good at their job, the task at hand, they always make it look very effortless. You are so right, people don't see all of tge background work leading up to the efficiency of a job done well, and they don't notice the tons of little things that are done while seemingly being effortless. I hear you Laura. It is still a lot of work.

Happy birthday Laura!!! You’re exactly right… just like you said tractors are always going to need a operator, bolts,pins,lines,wheels ECT. Will always be breaking and a tractor is always going to have to have a farmer to get the job done…

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the great content! Missed seeing your mother!

Happy belated on your birthday, dear Laura. 🤗 Greetings to everyone from Germany.

Thanks For Allowing Us To Follow Along Today!! Thanks for your Explanation Thru The Video!! Happy Birthday A Few Days Late! Hope You Had A Great Day!! Keep Smiling On!! 😀👍👊

Hi Laura. I graduated from Concordia Teachers College in Seward in1977. First time I had been in Nebraska. I'm from Colorado. I miss those Nebraska sunsets and thoroughly enjoy seeing them in your videos. Brings back good memories. My husband and I love following you and Grant. Happy BD fellow Taurus.

Great explanation as to how technology complements the person and does not replace the person. You are far more efficient and productive than farmers of the past. Thank god. You feed the ever expanding world!! Keep it up.

Happy Birthday.....appreciate all you do !

I love that a farm girl who can sling 50 lb bags of seed (and haul lava rocks in the mud) recognizes that she's still a girl who likes nice nails. I'm a suburban older white collar man who is learning more about where my food comes from. I was also pleased to hear that your grandpa is well enough that he could come out to the field. My birthday is also May 11, and I had the honor of sharing that birthday with my grandfather.

Thanks for all the food, Laura.

I love watching you farm! This is so cool!

Awesome to see you have the knowledge passed down from your father. Keep up the great work.

Happy birthday laura i think you are doing an amazing job on the farm hope you have a fantastic day.

Flat out awesome. Thanks for a look into modern day farming.

Happy happy birthday Laura I hope you get a day of leisure

Wonderful vid. How far we have come. I still remember my grandfather's farm in Indiana when he farmed with horses.

Happy Belated Birthday! Really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work and have a good day!

Well Happy Birthday! And many more!

Happy Belated Birthday Laura.

Happy belated Birthday Laura. My daughter’s birthday was y’day the 20th. She turned 31. Seems like just y’day she was 3..... Good luck on your farming this year. I know that things are more expensive this year, like fuel... and some things are in short supply....

RU-vid decided that I must watch Laura Farms and I must say it was educational and I like it. The algorithm hard at work 🤣