A new research report by Meticulous Research predicts that drones in agriculture will be worth more than $5 Billion by 2025, according to DroneLife. Agriculture has been a major sector for the commercial drone industry for several years. Now, new sensors and technology have made the...

Nick Guadagnoli, Technology Solutions Manager for 4Rivers Equipment in the U.S., discusses how they use the John Deere Operations Center in their everyday workflow.

Ground-breaking drone programs abound in Africa, with applications including medical delivery, precision agriculture, flood management, and insect control, reports DroneLife. At the African Drone Forum, it is clear that the goals of participating countries and companies are far greater...

Stampede, the global leader in value added distribution, has announced that it has been appointed to serve as a U.S. distribution partner by Delair, a leading provider of end-to-end visual intelligence solutions that enable enterprises to capture, manage and...

There has been a lot of buzz about potential uses of drones in agriculture, reports Growing Produce. And, the buzz is growing that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could be deployed in a task that every farmer must contend with...

XAG Annual Conference 2019 (XAAC), themed 'Empowering the Next-Gen Farmers', was hosted on 28 October in Guangzhou, China, according to a company release. It brought together 1,300 people, including XAG's strategic partners, solution providers, agricultural experts, and renowned media...

NASA administrator James Bridenstein addresses the crowd as part of the opening keynote at Commercial UAV Expo 2019 in Las Vegas, NV, on October 29, 2019. As a longtime drone industry advocate, let me start by...

Adoption curves of various technologies vary by region because of infrastructure and available service providers. In many parts of Asia, service providers are leapfrogging to cutting-edge application methods. Here’s why Asian agriculture is primed for adoption of precision ag...

MicaSense has released the RedEdge-MX Dual Camera Imaging System, a 10-band multispectral solution for advanced multispectral imaging applications that features RedEdge-MX and the new RedEdge-MX Blue, according to a company news release at PR Web. Consisting of two cameras...

Bayer and XAG has recently collaborated in Hangzhou, China to host a crop dusting drone demonstration on citrus trees, according to a company press release. Justin Gong, Co-founder and Vice President of XAG, together with Bayer's crop scientists and...

U.S. specialty crop growers are getting help in making their field conditions more visible with venture capitalists sinking billions in recent years into a growing number of agtech start-ups, writes Lauren Smiley at The New York Times. A share...

Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field, reports David Eddy at Growing...

China-based XAG has announced it has introduced autonomous drones to improve pest control efficacy against disease caused by fall armyworms, writes Gulli Arnason at Financial News. XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the...

Earlier this year scientists revealed the first-ever image captured of a black hole. Thought to be impossible, the feat required the collaboration of more than 350 astronomers over several years, and their efforts recently earned them the Breakthrough Prize...

At this week’s InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture, reports Harry McNabb at DroneLife. Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much...

Modern and efficient farm equipment lets farmers improve their produce, reduce input costs, reduce work and increase comfort, and more, reports Silicon Canals. Such precision agriculture equipment produces higher yields with reduced pesticides and increases the efficiency of the...

https://youtu.be/FoIo8RxwloU Rantizo’s drone-spraying platform is growing in broad-area crops in the U.S., where many said it wasn’t feasible. We talk to CEO Michael Ott to understand how this emerging application method is getting traction with retailers and growers at any...

A new special report from the Editors of PrecisionAg and AgriBusiness Global highlights trends and innovation behind the rapidly maturing space of drone application technology. Download The State of Precision Drone Application to get exclusive insights on: Global investment trends...

https://youtu.be/-4BGSGeoE90 In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Precision Ag Market Development Director David Frabotta discusses Ipsos research with Jessica Chung, Co-Lead at the Center of Excellence for Commercial Drone Adoption at Ipsos Business Consulting....

A recent article by CIO Australia outlines how the rapid development and deployment of technology-based systems are doing more than create new businesses, they are creating completely new industries around agriculture productivity, traceability, and decision support. Several of the technologies...