The NCGA notes that unmanned aerial systems have widespread potential applications for farmers, and will ultimately reduce costs, improve efficiency, and make farming operations more sustainable.

The exemption allows for operation of Topcon's unmanned aerial system (UAS) in the United States and covers the operation of the Sirius Basic and Sirius Pro for aerial data collection.

ADM Crop Risk Services announced today that it has received regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to expedite and improve claims processing, an industry-first addition to its cutting-edge suite of claims technologies.

Agricultural UAVs could help Tasmania's poppy industry fight the systemic mildew that has wiped hundreds of thousands of dollars from the 2015 harvest.

Newly developed software makes it easier to capture high-res photos, analyze crop health and create accurate prescriptions to load into their precision farming equipment.

Five students in Western Illinois University's School of Agriculture recently had the opportunity to learn, first hand, some of the agriculture-related applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, thanks to Stewart Moorehead from John Deere's Technology Innovation Center.

Downloadable for free from 3DR, DroneKit packages years of 3DR’s research and development into a single robust and extensible platform which developers can use to create web-based drone apps or even apps onboard the drones themselves.

According to the AUVSI, the rapid adoption of drones is going to create more than 100,000 jobs and $82-billion in economic impact over the next ten years.