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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ayurella Horn-Muller,Grist and Melina Walling

Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?

Climate Automated Farm Tech - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.

As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet.

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