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Three’s A Crowd: Hylio Secures FAA Drone Swarm, Night Flight Exemptions
Three’s A Crowd: Hylio Secures FAA Drone Swarm, Night Flight Exemptions

Spray drones are growing more ubiquitous and more scalable across agriculture. One company has unlocked the ability to deploy three at once and it’s a Smart Farming game changer.

How To Address Customer Reluctance To Adjuvants In Aerial Applications
How To Address Customer Reluctance To Adjuvants In Aerial Applications

Joe Gednalske, CPDA director of education – adjuvant development, shares tips for responding to four common points of pushback.

Intelinair Now Integrates With CNH Brands
Intelinair Now Integrates With CNH Brands

The announcement means more streamlined use and experience for farmers, which can lead to more data-driven decision making for farmers and ag retailers.

Feds Issue Warning on Chinese-Manufactured Drones as Farmer Adoption Soars
Feds Issue Warning on Chinese-Manufactured Drones as Farmer Adoption Soars

As drone use in agriculture climbs the FBI and CISA are warning about data theft from Chinese-manufactured drones. The ag industry is on the lookout but U.S.-made drone options are limited.

Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones
Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones

Johnnie Roberts, CPDA director of application – adjuvant chemistry, shares a solution to many of the common issues spray drone applicators face.

Can A Scouting Technology Increase Farmer Trust?
Can A Scouting Technology Increase Farmer Trust?

From 2020 with only a few farmers participating to covering millions of acres in 2023, Taranis says it wants to help retailers and farmers understand every decision with analytics via its AcreForward technologies.

Rise of the Spray Drone
Rise of the Spray Drone

While farmers find the technology useful, especially for spot spraying and targeting fields in less-than-ideal conditions, weed scientists are buzzing with more caution.

How to Know if Drone Application Will Work for You
How to Know if Drone Application Will Work for You

Drone application has a lot of advantages for farmers and ag retailers, but it may not be the right choice for everyone.

Sentera Analytics Show Effect of Extreme Weather on Crops
Sentera Analytics Show Effect of Extreme Weather on Crops

Leveraging its advanced data science ecosystem, Sentera translates high-resolution aerial imagery into actionable plant-level measurements

Intelinair, NVision Ag Announce Collaboration
Intelinair, NVision Ag Announce Collaboration

“By combining our imagery and data analytics with NVision Ag’s proprietary nitrogen management technology, we will expand our in-season offering in nitrogen management...” said Tim Hassinger, CEO and President

Drones Hone in on Silage Inventories
Drones Hone in on Silage Inventories

What if you could accurately measure your silage pile inventory with a few clicks of a button? With today's drone technology, you can.

Sentera Launches FieldAgent Mobile Stand Count
Sentera Launches FieldAgent Mobile Stand Count

With FieldAgent Mobile Stand Count, customers capture aerial imagery via a drone mission. Once the imagery is uploaded to the FieldAgent Mobile iOS app, Stand Count is generated within minutes

6 Steps To Keep Ag Aviation Operators and Drones Safe
6 Steps To Keep Ag Aviation Operators and Drones Safe

In a 2022 survey, the NAAA found 22% of manned aerial operators reported they or a pilot flying for them encountered a drone during a flight. 

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Iowa Legislation Seeks to Limit Drone Flight Over Livestock Operations

To restrict drone surveillance of livestock facilities without the permission of the property owner, the Iowa House recently passed legislation, House File 572.

The Equity and WebAir Launch Drone Spray Company
The Equity and WebAir Launch Drone Spray Company

Green Creek Drone Company will be led by Tony Weber as general manager and will also be working closely with The Equity’s Agronomy Department providing custom application of fungicides in select areas in 2023.

Sentera’s Direct Georeferencing System Increases Efficiency 3X
Sentera’s Direct Georeferencing System Increases Efficiency 3X

Ditch stitching. Sentera has developed its Direct Georeferencing (DGR) System that allows drone operators to do just that.

Ag Retailer Fills Need and Finds Niche with Drone Spraying
Ag Retailer Fills Need and Finds Niche with Drone Spraying

“If we cut 20 seconds on every fill, and we do 50 fill ups in a day— we save 25 minutes,” Cody Ray says. “That could be another 10 acres a day.”

Rantizo Raises $7.5 Million
Rantizo Raises $7.5 Million

Currently, Rantizo service providers are primarily focused in the Midwest and can be found from the west coast to as far east as Pennsylvania.

Yamaha’s Second Helicopter Drone Approved By FAA
Yamaha’s Second Helicopter Drone Approved By FAA

The Yamaha Fazer features improvements from previous models including 50% more payload capacity.