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year s consumer electronics show brings together big tech and big agriculture. wow! reporter: the consumer electronics show is usually a place for far out gadgets. going to get two tomorrow. reporter: but in the center of the fancy new hall this morning among robot arms, crowds gathered around this 18 ton piece of farming equipment. john deere s autonomous sprayer. you just turn it loose and it drives along and kills weeds, no driver, no remote control. it would take 6,000 people to cover the same amount of ground. reporter: farming is under intense pressure in the united states. just ask travis center, john deere brought him here from his farm in arkansas. people are moving away from the rural areas. you don t have that labor force that you had. reporter: not only that, he is a young former at 44. the average age in the u.s. is 57 for farmers. as they retire, fewer are replacing them. combine that with billions of more people on the planet and food forecast to rise 50%

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