Drones are adding a new level of precision to agriculture, giving farmers digital tools for cultivating better and more profitable crops. “The machinery that large farms use—big combines and ...

Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, limiting their appeal to farmers. In contrast, today’s models can be flown immediately after purchase and carry ...

Best known in ag for crop spraying and field mapping, drones can also be used for pollination, yield forecasting, and ...

Mississippi State University releases 13-part online course to help farmers master agricultural spray drone technology and ...

Drones could offer farmers multi-spectral images of their crops to show which plants need more fertilizer, more water or more nitrogen — an advance in what's known as "precision agriculture." And that ...

Farmers can use very simple quadcopters with digital cameras, which cost about $500, for a quick view of their fields. Other systems, ranging from $2,000 to about $30,000, come with near-infrared ...

Discover how agricultural drones reduce waste, improve irrigation efficiency, and deliver data-driven insights for modern ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute’s Drones4Rice initiative is pushing rice production deeper into digital agriculture, using drones to automate seeding, spraying and fertilizer application — a ...

The technology has moved from novelty to necessity on many farms and ranches. Enthusiasm for drone use in agriculture is growing quickly, says Caleb O’Neal, University of Missouri Extension field ...

With already thin profit margins and increasingly uncertain farm labor and other input costs, precision agriculture ...

Drones are one area of farm inputs where costs have been falling, even as the cost of other inputs like farm labor, fertilizer and pesticides have been rising—in some cases dramatically, squeezing ...

Feral hogs root around in a field. The hogs cause an estimated $115 million of damage in South Carolina each year. (Provided by Marion Barnes, Clemson Extension) COLUMBIA — Drones could be the newest ...