Kansas State University Salina is offering a new training program to help farmers use drones for crop management.
Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, limiting their appeal to farmers. In contrast, today’s models can be flown immediately after purchase and carry ...
Drones are one area of farm inputs where costs have been falling, even as the cost of other inputs like farm labor, fertilizer and pesticides have been rising—in some cases dramatically, squeezing ...
Many Canadian farmers are eager to use drones to spray pesticides — already common in the United States — but industry groups ...
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – An estimated 45,000 farmers across the United States received a drone or unmanned aerial system for Christmas, according to Kris Poulson, vice president of agriculture for Sentera.
United States farmers may need to plan now for a future in which Chinese-made drones are no longer allowed to operate on U.S. networks. That future may be nearer than many think, but it doesn’t mean ...
(WGHP) — The back-and-forth over tariffs between the US and China is creating tension for a variety of businesses. It’s also impacting a key and growing technology that helps to put food on your table ...
A farmer's attempt to transport livestock using a drone backfired after the device became entangled with a high-voltage line, ...
The animal was suspended mid-air when the drone’s rope snagged a power line.
After hearing testimony from the farm data industry, lawmakers might push the FAA to relax line-of-sight rules for drone operators. Big data collected via drones could hold yield-boosting promise for ...
THIS is shocking moment a drone carrying a pig gets caught tangled in power cables, causing a 10 hour blackout. Jaw-dropping footage shows the comical silhouette of the suspended animal against a ...