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▶ 9:13 · $DE · Deere CEO targets fully autonomous corn production by 2030 with AI-driven precision agriculture
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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

John Deere CEO: Autonomous Tractors and Farming's AI Era | Podcast | In Good Company

2026-09-02 · 2 company · 3 thematic
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john may

John May has spent nearly his entire career at John Deere, becoming CEO in 2019. He launched the 'Smart Industrial' strategy to transform the 190-year-old equipment maker into a technology company focused on autonomy, AI, and precision agriculture.

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“Well, our goal is our our our ambition period is by 2030, we want to have the corn production system, growing corn in the US fully autonomous. That's our goal. Everything from tillage, planting, spraying, and harvesting the crop, uh, witho…”
—john may
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