Pix4D is announcing Pix4Dfields, software that the company claims is the first fully dedicated product to give users fast and accurate maps while in the field, with a simple yet powerful interface fully dedicated to agriculture. When Pix4D first decided to...

Sentera today announced the immediate availability of the Sentera AGX710 gimbaled precision agriculture sensor with plug-and-play integration for DJI's industry leading Matrice 200 Series industrial drones. The AGX710 sensor delivers exceptional crop health insights and enables ag professionals to...

Sentera announces the general release of its RTK GPS precision positioning module for the PHX Pro fixed-wing drone. The module delivers true L1/L2, multi-constellation RTK to the PHX Pro. Sentera's RTK solution offers survey, agriculture, and mapping customers sub-5cm and...

Walmart is applying for a range of patents using drones to automate farming. The move could support its grocery business and give the giant greater control over its supply chain, according to a report on CBInsights.com. As Walmart goes head...

What do trees, drones, and minefields all have in common? Precision aerial planting. A concept first introduced in the 1930’s (possibly as early as 1926) to originally reseed a mountain in Honolulu, planting via an airplane has captured our imagination...

This unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is equipped with a LiDAR camera. Photo courtesy of UF/IFAS Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis recently joined the faculty at UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee, writes Frank Giles on...

Sentera today announced the availability of a Micro Gimbal upgrade for Sentera Single sensors mounted on the popular DJI Phantom 4 Pro, Advanced, or Standard drone platforms. The micro gimbal compensates for drone pitch and roll so that the...

Last week’s annual National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) in Louisville, KY, was this author’s first experience attending the mid-winter Midwest equipment classic, and although it’s not quite on the level of an Agritechnica (another first for me this year),...

Via DroneLife.com: I’ve been researching and writing about agriculture drone solutions since early 2012, writes SkyLogic Research CEO & Founder and drone industry analyst Colin Snow for DroneLife.com. I recently came across this OpEd on PrecisionAg.com by author Ben D. Johnson,...

According to a recent press release, PrecisionHawk, Inc. announced it has raised a $75 million round of funding from a group of venture and strategic investors. This investment brings PrecisionHawk’s total funding to more than $100 million since...

My friends, as many of you told me repeatedly throughout the last 12 months, 2017 was an interesting year in Ag Tech. We witnessed needle-moving mergers and acquisitions (Deere-Blue River; AGCO-Precision Planting; FieldReveal, etc.), intriguing product launches (SmartFirmer, Sentera's Phoenix...

January is a busy month for agricultural companies. It’s a month that strong sales can set the mood for the rest of the calendar year, it’s a month full of trade shows, and it’s a bitterly cold month for...

Sentera announces the availability of elevation maps within the Sentera AgVault platform, offering agronomists, crop consultants, and growers additional field insights. The system now delivers elevation variance maps. Topography and elevation data helps ag professionals increase operating efficiencies when...

Data capture is near real-time and on demand with agricultural drones. There is not a remote sensing platform that is innately better at all things: satellites, manned aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) all fill a...

I recently attended the Emerald Cup, a large two-day gathering of the California cannabis industry, which was first posted on sUASnews.com. Tens of thousands of participants, growers, associations, and grow-related businesses descended on the Sonoma County fairgrounds in Santa...

American Robotics, an industrial drone developer specializing in agricultural automation, has unveiled its flagship product Scout. It is a self-charging, self-managing drone system capable of autonomously carrying out daily scouting missions. Scout from American Robotics is...

This soybean field in Mato Grasso, Brazil, was photographed from 65 meters up by an agricultural drone. Technology adoption usually occurs in stages. In agriculture, it progresses best when new innovations are spurred by competition, and...

The Springfield Beckley-Municipal Airport now has a new hangar for unmanned aircraft and precision agriculture, writes Allyson Brown on GovTech.com. The new hangar, the Clark State-Ohio Center for Precision Agriculture, is a part of a $1.2 million project to build...

The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., has announced a partnership with Deveron UAS Corp., that will deliver farmers advanced aerial imagery data combined with powerful analytics through The Climate Corp.'s industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform. The...

DJI showcased new hardware and software advancements that make it easier for businesses across multiple industries to incorporate drones into their daily operations at its AirWorks user conference in Denver today. During the keynote presentation, DJI demonstrated its new FlightHub...