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Crops

The farm drones are getting closer

Airframe, camera and computer technologies are rapidly evolving in favour of farmer applications

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The next revolution in farming isn’t about chemistry or genetics. It’s about scouting, and the good news is that the enabling technology has come several giant steps closer in just the last two years, thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles (popularly called UAVs or drones) which offer a visual platform for scientific crop monitoring. Drones are […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

U.S. drone rules remain in hangar in 2014

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Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters — The United States missed a year-end deadline for publishing new rules on remote-control aircraft, delaying an eagerly awaited step toward using drones in everything from farming to package delivery. Businesses have been clamouring for rules to allow commercial drone flights, fearing the U.S. is falling behind other countries in developing […] Read more
drone, or UAV, unmanned aerial vehicle
Machinery, Production

Satellites and ag drones link up

By targeting their strengths, these two technologies can complement each other

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Reading Time: 5 minutes For “eye-in-the-sky” technology, the last three years have seen some stunning advances, especially in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite imaging systems. Yet while both made headlines about the same time in 2011, both also had limited success on the farm, as is often the case when new technologies first get into […] Read more

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