Betting on drones for smarter pesticide use on farms
Researchers compared compared the costs, working capacity, and efficiency of drones versus remote-controlled helicopters and tractor-mounted boom sprayers.
Researchers compared compared the costs, working capacity, and efficiency of drones versus remote-controlled helicopters and tractor-mounted boom sprayers.
This Quantix hybrid drone & AV DSS data analytics ecosystem will be used in a wide variety of precision agriculture research studies.
The largest ag drone fleet will allow operators to survey a 160-acre field in less than 15 minutes, quickly spotting variations in plant and soil health.
The Mercer County, Ohio Sheriff’s Department is thankful a local individual donated their drone to scope out the damage a drunk driver did this week joyriding through a farmer’s corn field. Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey released the aerial photo below of crop damage that occurred July 15 in the area of Brown and Meyer […]
Drones may be the ears and eyes of your farm but are they covered under your current commercial insurance policy? Three in four U.S. farmers (74%) are currently using or considering adopting the technology to assess, monitor, and manage their farm according to an April 2018 Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. survey of 269 U.S. farmers. […]
To drone or not to drone? That seems to be the question on many farmers’ minds as they try to figure out if this new technology will provide a return on investment for their farm. With Measure’s Drone Flight Calculator, farmers can model their fields and determine whether drone imaging is right for them. The […]
Land O’Lakes is calling on innovators from the tech industry to help make drones more ag friendly through a little competition called the Land O’Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge. A crowdsourcing contest designed to develop proposed solutions that enable scalable, autonomous drone usage in precision agriculture, the Drone Challenge will award a prize of $140,000 to […]
At AGDAILY, we know that advancements are an advantage in the ag industry, and it’s fitting that as we look toward the future, we are riding the right kind of technology to get there. We are excited to showcase a DJI Phantom 3 Professional as the centerpiece of our Own-A-Drone giveaway, taking place from now […]