Auto-steering extended to headlands

Manually steering a tractor and implement through a headland turn, while watching for obstacles, raising the implement, and down-shifting the tractor, makes for tiring work — and headland inconsistencies, for example in seed drilling.

Automatic headland management has now been added by John Deere to their GPS auto-steering facilities.

And their iTEC AutoLearn has won one of the prestigious silver medals for innovation at Germany’s Agritechnica trade fair, where judges described it as the world’s first auto-teaching tractor.