John Deere features automated cotton picking at CES 2024

John Deere goes big at every CES.

At one CES, Deere featured its totally self-driving tractor. It was so big, Deere erected a home for it in a parking lot outside the Las Vegas Convention Center.

At the last CES, Deere showed its expansive ExactShot and See & Spray technologies on a massive farm machine.

Those technologies are aimed at helping feed the world, as anyone who works at Deere will say.

At CES this year, Deere showed how it is helping in cotton picking and road work, two totally unrelated fields but both requiring sophisticated technology to get the job done better.

Deere brought its cotton-picking mechanism, a series of connected cotton-picking machines that sit in front of a large Deere cotton picking machine.

As the device drives down the field at 4 mph, the front-loaded technology picks the cotton and feeds it through rotating drums operating at 5,000 revolutions per minute, ultimately creating very large cylinders of cotton that emerge from the back of the moving device.

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