The proposal indicates that UAVs weighing up to 55 pounds would be allowed to fly within the sight of their operators only during daylight hours, must stay below 500 feet and fly less than 100 mph.
Earlier this week, the FAA posted two grants of exemption for Niceville, Florida-based Pravia LLC to operate the eBee Ag and E384 small unmanned aircraft systems for precision agriculture applications for a domestic agricultural seed company.
Valmie Resources Inc. has announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Monitoreo Especializado Agrícola de Jalisco, SA (MEA), a crop monitoring solutions provider.
AgJunction Inc. announced a strategic OEM partnership with Pulse Aerospace of Lawrence, KS, to integrate SATLOC, application controls with a new generation of unmanned aerial system solutions for precision agriculture.
WM-Form is an end-to-end agriculture solution for field survey, topography analysis, design creation, reporting and cost estimation, land forming and verification.
Verdant Robotics showed off its new Sharpshooter at the FIRA Conference a few weeks ago. Dubbed the only robotic precision application system that aims before it shoots, Sharpshooter uses Bullseye Aim & Apply Technology.
The college offers an associate degree in Applied Science in Agriculture (60 credit hours). Students enrolled in this program may specialize in precision farming technology by selecting up to 15 credit hours in this area and agriculture business, sales and agronomy.
The college offers an AAS in Precision Agriculture and customized precision ag- related training for agricultural producers, insurance underwriters, equipment dealer and agricultural cooperative employees and others.
Offering training on Ag Leader, Trimble, Reichhardt, Norac and Integris Systems in twice yearly customer training events (spring/fall). Also offering individual training opportunities on any HTS Ag products and SMS software, year round.