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

Farmers considering spray drones are encouraged to evaluate the technology carefully, utilize available educational resources ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how one farmer built a thriving drone application business with smart marketing, local focus and relationship-building.

Overview:  Seeing crop stress early changes everything. When problems are spotted days before visible damage, farmers can act faster, save crops, and avoid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers seeking new ways to improve operations and increase profit found expanded technology options at this year’s Dakota ...

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 ...