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XAG Drone Seeding to Help Vegetation Regeneration in Australia
In a collective effort to restore Australia from wildfire devastation, XAG has joined the first-ever post-fire drone seeding operation on Lake Cobrico, Victoria. This project was funded by Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and managed by Heytesbury District Landcare Network (HDLN). Continue reading
BASF and Delair, a global provider of end-to-end visual data management solutions for enterprises, have announced their collaboration to scale up BASF’s research and development projects for seeds, traits and crop protection. Continue reading
Empire Drone Company has announced that it has received a Part 137 certification from the FAA. This certification allows Empire Drone Company to spray crops by drone, making them part of an elite list of a companies who have this authorization in the United States. Continue reading
Custom applicators and farmers looking to use drones to apply herbicides to crops in Canada are still in a holding pattern. Continue reading
Draganfly Inc. has announced three new specialized payload offerings, which are intended to expand agricultural research and environmental monitoring using drones. Continue reading
As swarms of locusts continue to infest and destroy vegetation in Sindh and the issue has persisted for months, it has become evident that the authorities concerned have still not been able to control the situation. Continue reading
As haze blanketed large tracts of Southeast Asia last month, office workers with Genting Plantations Bhd in Jakarta were investigating the source of the choking smoke more than a thousand kilometers away. Images collected from drones flying up to 400 meters (about 1,300 feet) above Genting’s oil palms help the company spot fires in remote and inaccessible areas. Continue reading
John Deere and Volocopter are presenting the first large drone adapted for agricultural use at AGRITECHNICA – a demonstrator model of the VoloDrone equipped with a John Deere crop protection sprayer, which is ready for its first field flight. Continue reading