I don't know if it will be the next 10-15 years or not, but I wouldn't be at all surprised. In my opinion a real problem right now in production agriculture is the lack of qualified help. The solution over time has been to increase equipment size. This is becoming burdensome. There are a lot of jobs that more smaller machines would simply be better at. I'm going to get flammed here for this, but I'm all about having tractors that don't have a cab at all. I would love to switch our farm from one 24 row planter and one tractor to 3 12 row planters and 3 tractors without operators. This would also enable the tractor to be a storage unit for seed or fertilizer. I don't really see the tractor replacing air carts and the like, but I think there could be some things that would be stored on the tractor especially if there were no operator that needed to see what was going on behind him.

I would like to be in the field on an ATV running around behind each machine checking them and making sure things are going well. I could hopefully time things so they ran out of seed and fertilizer at different times which would enable me to fill one while the other two were still working. I would have more redundancy so if one broke down I'd still have 24 rows going through the field.

I'm sure I would be spending more time on the computer planning courses and so on, but that's OK if I can have one good guy doing more without increasing equipment size. I wish I could be the guy testing these things out honestly.

As far as tractors are concerned, I wish I didn't have to drive it. I think I made that clear in response to the first question.

Also clearly explained in response to the first question.