In case you’ve fallen behind in your farm machinery reading, a recent video from Farm Equipment Magazine is worth giving some special attention. The video below gives a preview of a new product called the Kinze Autonomy Project, a new set of tractor and grain cart unveiled this Summer that drive themselves to harvest crops and that can make “intelligent operational decisions in real time based on field conditions.”

Designed to reduce the need for skilled labor operating the machinery, the system would mean that farmers could do other higher-level planning work and operate the tractor all night long by itself. Presumably the whole thing is networked, collects data and will make some analytics available. Hello, Internet of Things, goodbye Old MacDonald? I’m not sure what to think of this – but large scale agriculture has probably been far enough from a city dweller’s idyllic vision of farming to be creepy for a long time anyway. There’s something about this video that feels especially creepy to me though.