Machinery
Drones are proving to be the dark horse in the race to bring the benefits of digital technology to farming
John Deere have purchased Sentera, a Minnesota-based company that specialises in equipment for capturing and interpreting aerial images
Rural Life
Drone use comes up regularly around farming, emergency response, and business, but many operators are unaware of the legal requirements.
CultiWise is a software product that uses drone, satellite and soil sampling to produce spot spraying and VRA maps for farmers
Case New Holland (CNH) has bought into Brazilian start-up, Bem Agro, which has developed techniques to enhance the use of drone images.
Machinery Focus
The future of agricultural machinery is one of automation, alternative fuels, and robotic tractors according to a UK marketing agency.
Agri-Business
A series of training in drone technology will be delivered to farmers in the midlands next Thursday (September 8), with more on September 15.
Dairy News
Imagery from drones could soon be helping dairy farmers to make crucial grassland management decisions, according to researchers.
Drone technology on farms aims to predict field an animal health and increase farm safety through the use of artificial intelligence.
A technology revolution in agriculture could help address the global challenge to produce more food...
The pressure is on farmers to ensure that they can produce "more with less" - and drones could play a role in this.
New European safety regulations for the use of drones are now being implemented, from January 2021 onward, according to the IAA.
Farmers are increasingly using technology, with drones now taking on the jobs of sheepdogs in some parts - including the barking.
Japanese farmers are currently trying out a new method of agricultural production - through the use of automated drones.
Over 76,000 drones could be in the UK skies in 12 years’ time - and it could add as much as £1.1 billion to the amount generated through farming.
Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development John Halligan has...
Tillage
A recently-established project in Teagasc Oakpark is using the latest technologies to identify the nitrogen requirements of cereal crops.
University College Dublin School of Agriculture hosted a seminar on Wednesday, April 19, on Using Drones with Spectral Imaging
Danish researchers are developing an insect-dropping "eco-drone" that can drop ladybirds and predatory mites over organic crops.
The O'Gorman Brothers recently finished harvesting potatoes in Co. Kildare and Martin Coogan was there to film the harvest with a drone.
The maize silage harvest was wrapped up last week on one Tipperary farm and Barry Grogan from Tipperary was on site with his drone filming the action.
Paul Brennan of Skyfly Photography filmed the Brennan Brothers agri-contractors sowing beans in February for Alexanders of Milford, Co. Carlow.
Agri Politics
Brett Sanders told Stuff New Zealand that for the past 18 months he has been using a drone to check a herd of 2,000 sheep at Matangi Station, near Alexandra.
