Take a quick spin around the country with three spray drone service providers as the summer crop spraying season heats up.

In late July 2025, a rumor spread widely across social media platforms that billionaire investor Bill Gates received approval ...

One of the trademarks of summer is the sight of planes and helicopters making gravity-defying turns as they make passes up ...

The drone itself is 20 feet (6 m) long, has a 38-ft (11.6-m) wingspan, carries a spray payload of up to 625 lb (283 kg), and can take-off and land within a space of just 150 ft (45.7 m).

Monsanto portrayed these “Roundup-ready” crops, and the ability to spray whole fields with glyphosate, as a virtual silver bullet for weed control.

Erratic weather, inflationary prices and changing regulations have altered the calendar for crop spraying in 2022. “We have a lot of different versions of wet,” said Matt Hovdenes, owner of ...

Written by Darryl Matthews Selective spraying is the technology of detecting weeds in a crop or on fallow ground and only spraying the weed. The reduction in herbicides can be between 60% and 90% ...

So, as we developed this 2022 Crop Robotics Landscape, our frame of reference was to look beyond mechanization and defined automation to more autonomous crop robotics.

Spraying herbicides on weeds has long been an imprecise science. Farmers have had little choice in the past but to spray everything – healthy crops and weeds alike. It’s an incredibly wasteful process ...

Nanocarrier spray: Better crops without genetic modification Date: February 23, 2022 Source: RIKEN Summary: Researchers have developed a way to improve crop quality without needing to create ...

Fulton, N.Y. -- The Federal Aviation Administration has given a small company in Fulton the green light to begin spraying crops with drones. Empire Drone Co. said Wednesday it has received ...

In this Aug. 10, 2010 photo, a pilot for Hoppe Airspray flies over a section of corn spraying for earworm in rural Conrad, Iowa. Crop dusters keep Iowa's farm fields and the economy healthy.