When the precision service calls starting flooding in, it's extremely important to have a plan of attack. In this video, Darin explains how he stays organized with an evolving "to-do" list while on the road.

On most lettuce farms, workers weave between rows to cull extra heads of lettuce crowding out the healthiest plants. The practice, called thinning, is labor-intensive and a labor shortage has made it difficult to find workers for the task.

The word “drone” brings to mind images of unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies and dropping explosives, but that is only one facet of their many capabilities.

The Ohio Board of Regents has approved Clark State Community College’s Associate of Applied Science degree in precision agriculture, allowing the college to begin enrolling students to the two-year program and to start classes in August.

With reported agricultural labour shortages all over the world and demographics showing the average age of farmers steadily climbing, complacency about the security of our food production isn’t an option, the delegates to the European Robotics Forum 2012 were told. In tandem with this future uncertainty, in the Developed World at least, there are growing concerns about product quality and safety, as well as the environmental impact of agriculture.