Modern farming embraces drones and robots to monitor crops, detect problems early and apply treatments with pinpoint accuracy ...

Pulse-width modulation has been a topic of enthusiastic conversation among keen sprayer operators, but one farm hopes to get plenty of the benefits without such a steep up-front cost. Arable business ...

A drone large enough to carry tanks of fertilizers and pesticides has won rare approval from federal authorities to spray crops in the United States.Officials say the drone, called the RMAX, is a ...

State environmental regulators have decided that farmers who want to spray their crops with chemicals within close proximity of neighboring homes or roads need permission from the people who own them.

DELTA, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado judge says that a farmer spraying against mosquitoes needs to prevent the pesticide from drifting into a neighboring organic farm. Judge Charles Greenacre ruled Thursday ...

It’s not yet life on the farm, but North Dakota State University researchers at the Big Iron farm show in West Fargo, North Dakota, Sept. 13-15, 2022, were demonstrating a research “weedbot,” or robot ...

HUDSON, Mich. (AP) - A large southeastern Michigan dairy farm and the state’s environmental regulators say the farm’s practice of spraying manure on croplands is ...

YAKIMA — A bill that sponsors say is needed to protect farmworkers from pesticide drift was met with concerted disapproval last week from state agencies that say they can’t take on new enforcement ...