Drones can help growers address hard-to-solve production issues, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce. Any time you adopt new technology, however, there’s ample opportunity to waste time and money. That’s why you’ll want advice from someone experienced with drones...

UAV-IQ has announced that it is offering aerial biocontrol, a new integrated pest management (IPM) service that uses drones to release beneficial biological control agents bred by Koppert Biological Systems, according to a press release on PR Newswire. Drone-based...

Floods, drought, fires, pest damage, or disease can decimate a season’s profits. A single drone flight can provide rapid, easy, and accurate assessment for insurance adjustment procedures and compensation. Crop damage assessments and adjustments have traditionally been difficult to make...

Disruptive innovation is seldom taken seriously in its infancy. Computer pioneers in the 1970s famously downplayed how much consumers would want microcomputers in their homes until Apple invented the personal computer. Newspaper publishers scoffed at internet advertising as “trading dollars...

In past articles I took the opportunity to introduce new companies that have entered the Brazilian agricultural market. These companies often bring a technology advantage to the sector, resulting in an increase in productivity for our farmers. For example,...

Last month I made the trek to downtown Chicago to attend the annual conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), mercifully shorthanded to the event known as XPONENTIAL. This year was the eighth edition of the meeting,...

Drone sprayers have been used in Pacific Rim agriculture for more than two decades, and they gained California certification four years ago. But do they have potential beyond the orchard gate? Probably not, at least not in the foreseeable future,...

As demographics continue to shift and change labor markets around the world, Bayer is looking for technology solutions that can help replace manpower that applies its crop protection products. Dr. Harald Printz, Bayer CropScience Japan's president and representative director, along...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also referred to as drones, have captured the attention of almost every industry, including the fields of medicine, retail, media, and real estate. The agriculture industry is no exception to this, with PrecisionAg recently publishing...

U.S. regulations are finally moving in the right direction for widespread ag drone adoption, allowing the U.S. to finally join places like Japan and China atop the medal podium of drone usage. Photo credit: China...

Delair today introduced a new model of its popular long-range UAV, the Delair DT26, which offers an easy-to-integrate architecture for adding user-specified sensors and other payloads to the platform. The Delair DT26 Open Payload model features a removable container...

Beck’s precision farming platform FARMserver has partnered with Sentera to simplify the process of uploading drone imagery into their multifaceted precision farming technology. For users who are flying with Sentera’s FieldAgent, uploading drone images is now easier than ever...

The world market for precision agriculture is forecast to hit $12 billion by 2025, according to research company Global Market Insights, and many of the industry's largest participants are moving into the space, writes contributing writer Peter Guest for...

Although the market for precision agriculture-based drones and robots was only at $2.5 million in 2018, a new report by BIS Research indicates the market (including both drones and robots) could explode to $23 billion in the next decade,...

Editor's note: Part Three of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Rantizo. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Two (Bayer CropScience). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

An Iowa State University researcher says that the next step in the commercial drone world is to expand capacity by deploying fleets of interconnected drones, according to a piece published at News.IAState.edu. But, according to Borzoo Bonakdarpour, an assistant professor...

Editor's note: Part Two of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Bayer CropScience. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

PrecisionHawk today announced PrecisionAnalytics Agriculture, an aerial mapping, modeling, and agronomy platform purpose-built for precision agriculture, according to a Business Wire post on APNews.com. Using PrecisionAnalytics, business leaders in agriculture can apply the latest generation of analytics tools and artificial intelligence...

Much has happened since we last spoke with Taranis in the fall of 2018. Since raising $20 million in Series B funding, the Israeli smart farming start-up has tripled its customer base and acres serviced to 20 million-plus, and...

Editor's note: Part One of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features ADAMA/Tactical Robotics. Be sure to also check out Part Two (Bayer CropScience) and Part Three (Rantizo). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...