Capable of spraying up to a 40-foot swath width, with a liquid application rate of up to 50 or more acres an hour at 2 gallons per acre, the HYL-150 can treat hundreds of acres per day.

“Hylio and MSU share common goals in advancing drone technology for agricultural applications,” Arthur Erickson said. “With our products and MSU’s programs, we can work together to pioneer best practices and teaching methods that will one day hopefully put this technology in the hands of a lot of American farmers.”

Big news in the drone world — the Federal Aviation Administration recently granted Texas-based drone builder Hylio a regulatory exemption that will allow it to swarm its heavy-lift drones with only one operator in control.

Cutting edge technology was on display almost everywhere you looked at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. Here are some of our top takeaways from the show.

The 2024 recipient of Precision Farming Dealer’s 12th annual Most Valuable Dealership award is HTS Ag, founded in 1995 with 4 locations across Iowa.

For Birkey’s Farm Store, a 19-location Case IH dealership group based in Champaign, Ill., a drone distributor came knocking, and they answered.

In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Ag Express, Precision Farming Dealer’s Dan Crummett goes 1-on-1 with Hylio co-founder and CEO Arthur Erickson. Hylio is a Houston area-based company that specializes in the creation of crop spraying drone systems.