Page, N.D. - It’s early afternoon on a picture-postcard day in late May, a rarity in a wet, drizzly spring. Tim “Toby” McPherson is eager to climb into his spray plane and take advantage of the ...

From a rescue fungicide application to cover crop seeding, sprayer and spreader drones are earning their place on farms. They can provide a cheaper, faster and more flexible method for in-field ...

This summer the old adage, "When it rains, it pours," rings especially true for crop sprayers. Last week's heavy rains, combined with this week's hot temperatures, put aerial applicators in high ...

BISMARCK, N.D. _ Worried about safety, North Dakota aerial crop sprayers want better communication with unmanned aircraft operators. “We’re requesting if a grower intends to operate an unmanned ...

LARIMORE, N.D.—John Morten, who learned to fly as a boy of 17, provides a textbook example of how to keep potatoes safe from blight. It’s a big deal this year because, for the first time in a decade, ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Worried about safety, North Dakota aerial crop sprayers want better communication with unmanned aircraft operators. “We’re requesting if a grower intends to operate an unmanned ...

AIRRAILS AGRI (https://airrails-agri.com) is an autopilot system with computer vision at its core that has been designed specifically for crop spraying and seeding drones and is the result of a ...

Pyka's Pelican crop-spraying drone can carry more than its weight in chemicals and is designed to take off and land in 150 feet, half the length of a football field. Oakland-based Pyka shares a goal ...

Purdue Extension will again be hosting the Purdue Sprayer School on January 30 to provide commercial and private farm applicators with training in field crop sprayer use and maintenance. The school ...