One California farmer is growing green and going green with a new electric, self-driving tractor.
Monarch Tractor, the creator of an electric self-driving tractor, has been testing the vehicles in two California wineries since 2020, including the one owned by fifth-generation winegrower Karl Wente.
Mr. Wente told Fox Business that “It’s sustainability in action and its evolution of the human species. It used to be, a big tractor where you can see the diesel combusting out, and now you just have this quiet electric vehicle running through.”
With drought, inflation and labor shortages hurting California’s agriculture, Monarch Tractor co-founder Mark Schwager thinks the Monarch Tractor can help farmers save big.