Wisconsin farm equipment dealership to sell UAVs with eye toward offering service packages in the future.

Unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, PrecisionHawk, today announced the closing of an Angel investment round carried by Bob Young, co-founder of open-source software company Red Hat and Innovate Indiana, the investment fund of Indiana University.

Two Boulder businesses are hoping to bring pioneering drone technology to the age-old business of farming -- if only federal regulators will let them out of the barn.

Having grown up in a generation fed an abundance of eye opening and eye rolling science fiction fodder, I’ve gotten a pretty diverse taste of what the future of the world was supposed to look like by now.

If you've been watching the development of Unmanned Aerial Systems and wondering when you could put this new technology to work in your precision ag operation, the answer is "right now."

Remote-controlled drones that can fly over a farmer's fields looking for patches of weeds the pesticide spraying didn't kill, or signs of those troublesome groundhogs.

A research farm, field tile manufacturer and unmanned aerial vehicle vendor will be among the stops at this year's InfoAg pre-conference tour.

Drones continue their steady approach into the different aspects of our lives. But while controversy rages over drone devastation over foreign soil and prying surveillance over US soil, experts are beginning to point our attention to the real future of unmanned aerial vehicles: farming.

Crop scouting, 3-D mapping, spot spraying and pathogen detection all could be performed by unmanned aerial vehicles to cut labor and input costs and improve decision making.

Drones numbering in the tens of thousands will be in the skies by 2030, the Federal Aviation Administration predicts. But where some may fear precision weapons or flying spy cameras, Steve Markofski sees flying tractors.