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Today's agricultural aircraft are often powered by turbine engines of up to 1,500 shp (1,100 kW) and can carry as much as 800 US gallons (3,000 L) of crop protection product. Helicopters are sometimes used, and some aircraft serve double duty as water bombers in areas prone to wildfires .
An agricultural drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle used in agriculture operations, mostly in yield optimization and in monitoring crop growth and crop production. Agricultural drones provide information on crop growth stages, crop health, and soil variations.
Clover seed is sown and spraying is carried out with insecticides, fungicides and weedkillers as well as general utility work. Aerial Topdressing has been attributed with vastly increasing agricultural production—in New Zealand alone, sheep numbers increased from 40 million to over 70 million, the majority of the increase being attributed to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A dozen U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged the Biden administration to address the use of Chinese manufactured agriculture drones, saying their use on American farms poses ...
An agricultural robot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of application of robots in agriculture today is at the harvesting stage. Emerging applications of robots or drones in agriculture include weed control, [1] [2] [3] cloud seeding, [4] planting seeds, harvesting, environmental monitoring and soil analysis.
PHOTO: This image taken from video provided by MartyA45_, shows what appears to be several drones flying over Randolph, N.J., on Dec. 4, 2024.
Air Tractor AT-802, with the largest hopper capacity of any commercially available agricultural aircraft. Gehling PZL-106AR Kruk The Antonov An-2 was a mass-produced aircraft. Many were used for agricultural work. Polish M-18 Dromader used for aerial fire-fighting in Australia. A Grumman Ag Cat applies a low-insecticide bait on a soybean field.
New York State Troopers in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Unit use a drone to mark hotspots at the Greenwood Lake fire on November 15, 2024 in Greenwood Lake, New York.