This week, senseFly has introduced eXom, the next-generation rotary drone that offers professional users unprecedented situational awareness.

The collaboration offers growers a step-change in sustainable crop production through better recommendations for nitrogen application management and other field input planning, which can help deliver improved crop yields.

A company in Neodesha is building drones that its owner believes could someday help farmers watch over their fields without spending hours walking or driving through their property.

AgJunction announced that CLAAS, one of its major OEM Solutions customers, will begin factory installation of the GPS Pilot with CLAAS S7 and CLAAS S10 guidance control terminals during Q4 2014 at manufacturing locations in Harsewinkel, Germany and Le Mans, France.

Digi-Star has announced the launch of TMR Tracker 5.0 for this fall. The new TMR Tracker 5.0 offers several enhanced user functions, including a new dry matter (DM) change log for each ingredient with inventory price effective dates, time tracking for loading and unloading ingredients, automated desktop reports and a daily diary to track on-farm events that might impact feed intake.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a grant to TekWear, LLC, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia to evaluate the effectiveness of innovative wireless, web-connected technologies for monitoring and growing specialty crops such as pecans.

The use of drones in agriculture is the focus of a one day specialist seminar taking place at Harper Adams University next month.

Farm Equipment has announced the agenda and presentation lineup for its “Next Generation-themed” 2015 Dealership Minds Summit, its once-every-2-years conference and networking event for dealer-principals, top-level management and executives from farm equipment dealerships of all colors. The upcoming event (open only to professional dealer personnel) centers exclusively on “The Next Generation” of management & ownership transitions within farm equipment dealerships.

Here are the top 10 stories we covered in September 2014. This list was compiled based on direct web traffic to our website

Today the FAA outlined guidelines for registration and marking unmanned aircraft systems in an email to current government, university and organization operators of unmanned aircraft, reports AUVSI’s Scott Kesselman.