CHS has announced an autonomous vehicle pilot program for North Dakota. CHS Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer David Black made the announcement at the Grand Farm event. CHS uses a follow-me model with its current pilot project in Minnesota. The second vehicle has a safety driver in the seat, but the vehicle is doing the actual driving. Black sees demand for a system like this. “All of us, especially in agriculture, see challenges with driver shortages and being able to find safe, quality, licensed drivers in space so we really want to take our time and prove out the pilot,” said Black. “We see this running for a year or two in North Dakota.” CHS has 10,000 miles under our belt with this project moving soybean oil between its processing plants in Minnesota. A similar level is anticipated as CHS moves fertilizer and crop inputs between Minot and Bismarck.
