SkyScout combines AI technology and predictive analytics to deliver timely and accurate insights into crop health so farmers can react quickly to disruptions and make data-driven decisions for greater future profitability.

The ability of AI to truly unlock benefits for your business comes from figuring out how you can tap your many “filing cabinets” of unstructured data to provide fast, accurate and meaningful results. Unless you approach the idea of AI integration from a truly long-term strategic approach, you might be disappointed with the outcome.

Before you can use a UAV for pesticide application, you’ll need to meet several important license or certification related requirements. Here’s what you need to know.

"If you’re going to bill somebody for your time, it needs to be immediate, so they remember the service you provided. They remember how much you help them, and it’s not 2-3 months later when it’s out of sight, out of mind, and they’re wondering why they’re getting this bill."

Farmers don’t want to replace people; they want them more productive. Autonomy allows them to reassign labor to higher-value tasks while autonomous systems handle the repetitive, time-consuming, mundane ones.

“Tackling herbicide resistance is a major challenge across all crops, but it’s especially tough with cotton,” Dudley Pohnert says. “We use the most effective tank mixes available, but they’re still not providing the results we need. In reality, we should be spraying our fields twice as often as we do, but the high cost of chemicals makes that unfeasible.”

"Partner with others. I’m not my own barber. I don’t do my own dental work. I don’t do my own legal work. So, why wouldn’t you find people that you trust, and you partner with in approaching the customer?"

The study will dig into how farmers perceive, adopt, and apply drone technologies — and what barriers stand in the way.

Recent conversations and sightings of drones in rural areas have producers raising questions, such as “what can I do about suspicious drone activity” and “can I shoot down a drone over my property?”