CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Across the country, farmers and small entrepreneurs are adding drones to their fleet of tools for tasks like spraying agricultural chemicals or spreading ...

Clockwise from top left: Pyka’s Pelican Spray drone is the world’s largest ag spray drone currently. It’s spray boom features 20 nozzles on each side. Attendees hear from the Heinen Brothers during ...

The PMRA says pesticides need drone-specific labels before drone spraying can take off. Crop trial data is helping that approval process.

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.

Rayne Faulconer, left, instructs Gage Singer as he flies a drone on a MU Extension field day on May 10 in Montgomery City. Singer traveled from southwest Missouri and said he’s interested in becoming ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, ...

Iowa State University freshman Rhett Keaton and his father, Vance, are launching a drone spraying side hustle. The father-son duo started out just having some fun several years ago, buzzing around the ...