By Jana Rose SchleisMissouri News Network Caleb O’Neal is spending his Saturday at the Montgomery County fairgrounds teaching ...

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 ...

A growing number of conservative lawmakers are sounding an agricultural alarm as congressional China hawks work to limit ...

Review all licensing and certification requirements before your spray drone leaves the ground. Not going through all the ...

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.

CORDOVA, Md. (AP) — Mike Geske wants a drone. Watching a flying demonstration on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Missouri farmer envisions using an unmanned aerial vehicle to monitor the irrigation ...

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 will be given drones by police as part of a series of measures to tackle rural crime. South Yorkshire Police has launched a new initiative to tackle specific issues in rural communities, ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. – An estimated 45,000 farmers across the United States received a drone or unmanned aerial system for Christmas, according to Kris Poulson, vice president of agriculture for Sentera.

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 ...

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 ...