Reading Time: 5 minutes You’ve invested thousands of dollars in that unmanned air vehicle (UAV), and you’re anxious to see it perform. You take it out of the box, plunk in the batteries, and off it goes… forever. It happens, says Matthew Johnson, owner of M3 Aerial Productions, a Winnipeg company that offers UAV training and aerial imagery and […] Read more
Don’t just fly your drone out of the box
New regulations make flying a drone more complicated for both recreational and commercial users
Drones have their limitations
Aerial images provide useful information, but an aircraft might be a better option for larger farms
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are drones the next big thing in scouting technology, or the latest toy that will be forgotten in a few years? Greg Adelman, owner of Crop Command Agronomy at Southey, Sask., says UAVs provide researchers with a great tool for assessing small research plots, but when it’s necessary to cover thousands of acres, they can’t […] Read more
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