Category Archives: Agriculture

High-Tech Pollination Program Begins in North Dakota

David Lyall, Paul Snyder and Kate Lyall are working together to track honey bee movements in sunflower fields

 Bee boxes sit to the west of Clark Coleman’s sunflower field north of Bismarck. Honey bees play a vital role in pollinating sunflowers, helping increase yield and quality. But up until now, the bees have been placed nearby and farmers hope for the best. “Bees pollinate, but they don’t know where,” explains Kate Lyall, who owns and operates Australian agriculture technology company Bee Innovative with her husband, David. Continue reading

AeroVironment Donates 87 Quantix Drones to 35 US University Agriculture Departments

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 AeroVironment, Inc.  announced its 2019 Quantix and AV DSS University Collaboration Project. The project’s focus is to advance academic research, applications and crop production practices to improve the future of farming through the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced data analytics. Continue reading

Drones Help Farmers Save an Endangered US River

United States Department of Agriculture engineering technician Kevin Yemoto guides a drone into the air at a research farm northeast of Greeley, Colorado

A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day. Continue reading

Israeli and Brazilian Joint Project for Modular Precision Swarming Crop Spraying Drone Solution

To overcome productivity issues common to maximum take off weight regulation found in many countries regarding UAV Crop Spraying, multiple automated collaborating drones are a solution. This technology requires knowledge of swarming and collision avoidance algorithms and experience in developing and operating Crop Spraying UAVs.
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