Digital Farming
October 17, 2019
Adoption curves of various technologies vary by region because of infrastructure and available service providers. In many parts of Asia, service providers are leapfrogging to cutting-edge application methods. Here’s why Asian agriculture is primed for adoption of precision ag...
Drones | UAVs
October 15, 2019
MicaSense has released the RedEdge-MX Dual Camera Imaging System, a 10-band multispectral solution for advanced multispectral imaging applications that features RedEdge-MX and the new RedEdge-MX Blue, according to a company news release at PR Web. Consisting of two cameras...
Drones | UAVs
September 30, 2019
Bayer and XAG has recently collaborated in Hangzhou, China to host a crop dusting drone demonstration on citrus trees, according to a company press release. Justin Gong, Co-founder and Vice President of XAG, together with Bayer's crop scientists and...
Drones | UAVs
September 23, 2019
U.S. specialty crop growers are getting help in making their field conditions more visible with venture capitalists sinking billions in recent years into a growing number of agtech start-ups, writes Lauren Smiley at The New York Times. A share...
Drones | UAVs
September 17, 2019
Growing up and working in California’s Salinas Valley, Jaclyn Bennett has long heard the complaints from growers who want to use beneficial insects but bemoan the man-hours needed to disperse them in the field, reports David Eddy at Growing...
Drones | UAVs
September 10, 2019
China-based XAG has announced it has introduced autonomous drones to improve pest control efficacy against disease caused by fall armyworms, writes Gulli Arnason at Financial News.
XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the...
Analytics
September 9, 2019
Earlier this year scientists revealed the first-ever image captured of a black hole. Thought to be impossible, the feat required the collaboration of more than 350 astronomers over several years, and their efforts recently earned them the Breakthrough Prize...
Drones | UAVs
September 5, 2019
At this week’s InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation – and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture, reports Harry McNabb at DroneLife.
Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much...
Drones | UAVs
September 2, 2019
Modern and efficient farm equipment lets farmers improve their produce, reduce input costs, reduce work and increase comfort, and more, reports Silicon Canals. Such precision agriculture equipment produces higher yields with reduced pesticides and increases the efficiency of the...
Drones | UAVs
August 21, 2019
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Rantizo’s drone-spraying platform is growing in broad-area crops in the U.S., where many said it wasn’t feasible. We talk to CEO Michael Ott to understand how this emerging application method is getting traction with retailers and growers at any...
Drones | UAVs
August 20, 2019
A new special report from the Editors of PrecisionAg and AgriBusiness Global highlights trends and innovation behind the rapidly maturing space of drone application technology.
Download The State of Precision Drone Application to get exclusive insights on:
Global investment trends...
Drones | UAVs
August 15, 2019
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In this episode of Precision Perspectives, Precision Ag Market Development Director David Frabotta discusses Ipsos research with Jessica Chung, Co-Lead at the Center of Excellence for Commercial Drone Adoption at Ipsos Business Consulting....
Drones | UAVs
August 15, 2019
A recent article by CIO Australia outlines how the rapid development and deployment of technology-based systems are doing more than create new businesses, they are creating completely new industries around agriculture productivity, traceability, and decision support.
Several of the technologies...
Drones | UAVs
August 6, 2019
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...
Drones | UAVs
July 24, 2019
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...
Drones | UAVs
July 15, 2019
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...
Drones | UAVs
July 3, 2019
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...
Drones | UAVs
June 10, 2019
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,...
Drones | UAVs
June 10, 2019
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,...
Drones | UAVs
June 4, 2019
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,...