{"id":5317,"date":"2013-08-10T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2013-08-10T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T12:51:58","slug":"driverless-tractors-till-high-tech-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"Driverless tractors till high-tech farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/au.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/driverless-tractors-till-high-tech-030110397.html\">AAP<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Of 280,000 farms in Germany, between 800 and 1,000 use optical sensors,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>However, precision agriculture may have bumper times ahead.<br \/>\n&#8220;It offers enormous productivity gains and allows for a reduction of resource use at a time of growing environmental regulatory demands,&#8221; said Oliver Neumann, spokesman for agricultural equipment giant John Deere.<\/p>\n<p>A problem is that the equipment still doesn&#8217;t come cheap. Some high-tech combine harvesters can cost up to half a million euros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAP: &#8220;Of 280,000 farms in Germany, between 800 and 1,000 use optical sensors,&#8221; he says. However, precision agriculture may have bumper times ahead. &#8220;It offers enormous productivity gains and allows for a reduction of resource use at a time of growing environmental regulatory demands,&#8221; said Oliver Neumann, spokesman for agricultural equipment giant John Deere. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}