MINNEAPOLIS — The rare geomagnetic storms that brought dazzling colors across the night sky caused some chaos. Some navigational systems in farming equipment broke down over the weekend, the New ...

“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern ...

According to several reports, the storms that we experienced back in May and even October were powerful enough to cause ...

Modern tractors from the likes of John Deere are packed full of sensors and instruments to keep them operating correctly. GPS systems onboard help farmers harvest crops and plow in nice straight ...

The issue is that modern tractors are highly dependent on GPS, which is provided by sensitive satellites in our planet's orbit. One extreme solar storm in May, they say, threw off equipment when ...

Modern-day farming is a high-tech operation highly dependent on GPS-guided tractors revolutionizing the way crops are planted, fertilized and harvested. But on May 10, 2024, that system came under ...

Mog is a fully autonomous, multipurpose electric farm tractor designed to be a cost-effective solution for small-scale farms.

Agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere has developed autonomous tractors with GPS, stereo cameras and lidar sensors ...

GPS systems are being stolen from tractors and combine harvesters on farms for use in the Russia-Ukraine war, an MP has claimed. Labour MP Tim Roca told a debate on rural affairs that thefts by ...