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 ...

Deploying camera drones and sprayers outfitted with the latest application technology onboard in a systems approach could end up being a key management strategy in helping farmers eradicate weeds.

Opponents say shifting decisions and a limited public process have deepened mistrust over spraying herbicide to control ...

Alex DeJong, IPM manager at The Perennial Farm, began using a DJI Agras drone sprayer at the nursery and worked it into their existing IPM strategy.

Using a drone agriculture sprayer can save water and cut down on carbon emissions compared to older methods. New rules from the FAA make it simpler to get approval for using spray drones, and flying ...

For the past three years, Terry Aberhart has watched the spindly, fixed-wing drones zip across the big skies over his farm in Canada’s Saskatchewan province, testing a technology that could be the ...

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.

=ST. MICHAEL, Minn. -- Terry M. Anderson envisions a future where many farm machines, from tractors to planters to crop sprayers, will operate with minimal human assistance. The Greenbush, Minn., ...

Wade Newland is the founder of Newland Ag Drones. He grew up on the family farm near Neodesha. He was active in FFA and went on to earn a degree from K-State in animal science.

Many Canadian farmers are eager to use drones to spray pesticides — already common in the United States — but industry groups ...

But Canada has yet to give its regulatory blessing to commercial drone-based weed control. In the U.S., where Precision AI plans to make its commercial debut next year, lawmakers have given the green ...