Agriculture Funds Aim to Harvest Profit, Along With Corn and Wheat

Farmers today operate self-guided tractors steered by GPS, use drones to monitor crops and employ artificial intelligence in irrigation. Robots will probably take cowhands' jobs before they take yours. Agriculture is a major export business in the United States -- which has lately been a source of stress. American agricultural exports have been hampered recently by the Trump administration's trade war with China. "China was a big and important market" for farmers in the United States, said A. Blake Brown, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University.