A new Connecticut company, Almanax, is using agricultural drones to spray seeds, water, and fertilizer on farms. Drones offer a cheaper alternative to traditional sprayer tractors and can help control ...

CASSELTON, NORTH DAKOTA — A Grand Forks, North Dakota, company has launched a study to learn how their heavy-lift drones can seed cover crops. The initial study is six months to a year and recently ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — For years, farmers could only imagine a day when they could use their own drone to “fly-on” farm chemicals or seed in “full-field” application. That day has come. Kevin Knorr of ...

A relatively new player in the crop protection space secured several million dollars in financing from some of the nation’s largest agribusiness firms after developing what they describe as the “first ...

Drones are being used for an ever widening range of agricultural applications enabled by new technology and diminishing regulatory constraints. Most current drone options are small, battery powered ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Agri Spray Drones (ASD), a leading provider of agricultural spray ...

In Nigeria and the rest of Africa, farmers and food producers have recognised the opportunities offered by drone-based systems. Drones, known as unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), now provide farmers with ...

Farming has always involved risk. Risk of pestilence, water shortages or excess, and weather events are only a few of the conditions affecting successful crop growth. Applied nutrients and crop ...

CASCADE, Ia. – It was a clear, dry day when Tony Kurt welcomed a small group of neighbors, local officials and media personnel to his fields near Cascade for a drone-seeding demonstration. The ...

Dr. Prashant Prabhakar Deshpande has post-graduated in Economics with a Gold Medal in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D in Social Sciences from Nagpur University in 2007. Crop loss caused by unpredictable ...