This week the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration announced that seven aerial photo and video production companies have asked for regulatory exemptions that would allow the film and television industry to use unmanned aircraft systems with FAA approval for the first time.

Valley Irrigation has added three new options to its VFlex Corner to give growers exactly what they need to irrigate additional acres on their farms.

Population growth and diminishing farmable land are forcing the agriculture industry to adopt high-tech IT and big data analytics solutions, according to John Deere global infrastructure services manager Larry Brewer.

MapShots, Inc., will hold its 2014 AgStudio Expo on July 28, 2014, at the Union Station Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. MapShots holds this meeting yearly to highlight their AgStudio line of products to new customers and discuss updates with existing customers.

AgGateway's Precision Agriculture Irrigation Leadership (PAIL) Project will hold a demonstration on June 11 at AgGateway's Mid-Year Meeting in Altoona, Iowa, to show equipment and software manufacturers how growers and irrigation consultants can access and send data in PAIL format as they develop and execute an irrigation plan. Full field testing is planned for late summer, and a proposed set of guidelines will be submitted in late November 2014.

Devised for industrialized farms, precision agriculture now has the potential to increase the yields of smaller acreage farms.

AgriGold has announced its collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing Inc. to conduct on-farm testing of the world's first electric multi-hybrid concept planter in Iowa.

Trimble recently announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held MAYBIM based in Provo, Utah. MAYBIM is a leader in providing 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) services to contractors with a focus on mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contractors across the U.S. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Swarthy from a North Carolina summer sun, Travis Lassiter sat in the air-conditioned cab of a John Deere tractor, flipped a switch, revved the engine and tapped an icon on a touch screen.

The new service, Soil Information System (SIS) solution, provides farmers and their trusted advisors with in-depth 3-D soil data they can use to make more informed decisions about their crop production goals.