Squinting through the morning sun, Jesse Patrick watches the top of his corn crop whip in the downdraft of a large spray drone pipping fungicides into the canopy. “The drone is only putting out 2 gal.

The PMRA says pesticides need drone-specific labels before drone spraying can take off. Crop trial data is helping that ...

To bring drone spray technology to farmers’ fields, Virginia Tech researchers are looking to standardize unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for herbicide spray applications. Producers spend between $6 ...

Researchers at College Station, Texas, have shown that spray drones can effectively control crabgrass in turf using low-drift nozzles at low spray volumes. Photo by Ubaldo Torres, Texas A&M University ...

Battling weeds can be expensive, labor intensive and use large amounts of chemicals. To help make this easier [NathanBuilds] has developed V2 of his open-source drone weed spraying system, complete ...

As population growth, economic development and urbanization rise, our farmers are under continual pressure to produce more food. Currently, farmers are using intensive, industrial processes to keep up ...

Kansas farmers will get a hands-on look at agricultural uses of unmanned aerial vehicles – more commonly called drones – during an upcoming public meeting in Garnett. The meeting is co-sponsored by ...

BREESE — Rantizo, the industry leader in agricultural drone spraying, has announced that Ryan VonderHaar and Luke Boeckman of L & R Ag, LLC of Breese are joining its network of licensed, insured, ...

Villagers in Sumatra allege that a pulpwood plantation company owned by forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper has escalated a long-running land dispute by killing their crops and intimidating them.

To bring drone spray technology to farm fields, Virginia Tech researchers are looking to standardize unmanned aerial systems for herbicide spray applications. The project led by Vijay Singh, an ...