Agricultural drones are transforming farming worldwide, boosting efficiency, safety, and sustainability while reshaping rural economies.

The idea of purchasing and flying a drone on the farm or ranch can be intimidating, but with the proper knowledge, producers ...

Drones are adding a new level of precision to agriculture, giving farmers digital tools for cultivating better and more profitable crops. “The machinery that large farms use—big combines and ...

Drones flying over Midwestern fields are likely to become a more typical sight. Farmers are finding that the remotely piloted aircraft can do everything from spraying fields to monitoring livestock.

As drone technology continues to evolve, it's poised to transform how dairy farms manage their feed inventories, optimizing ...

The Federal Aviation Administration should revamp its drone proposal to provide flexibility to allow farmers and ranchers who cannot access the internet to continue using drones, according to the ...

BLOOMINGTON — It’s a bird; it’s a plane … it’s a State Farm drone. The Bloomington insurance company has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to test drones for commercial use.

Farmers can use very simple quadcopters with digital cameras, which cost about $500, for a quick view of their fields. Other systems, ranging from $2,000 to about $30,000, come with near-infrared ...

Drones could offer farmers multi-spectral images of their crops to show which plants need more fertilizer, more water or more nitrogen — an advance in what's known as "precision agriculture." And that ...

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation reports that Terravata, an Idaho-based company, is using drones by releasing beneficial insects ...

For generations, farmers living along the borders of Kenya’s wildlife conservancies have watched helplessly as elephants ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farmers hoping to use drones to locate lost livestock or monitor trouble spots in their fields were disappointed by what they say are overly restrictive commercial drone rules ...