This summer the old adage, "When it rains, it pours," rings especially true for crop sprayers. Last week's heavy rains, combined with this week's hot temperatures, put aerial applicators in high ...

BISMARCK, N.D. _ Worried about safety, North Dakota aerial crop sprayers want better communication with unmanned aircraft operators. “We’re requesting if a grower intends to operate an unmanned ...

A purposeful large scale three-engined electric crop spraying RPAS that must make more sense than smaller multirotors over huge fields from Pyka. The company’s founding team, Michael Norcia, Chuma ...

Squinting through the morning sun, Jesse Patrick watches the top of his corn crop whip in the downdraft of a large spray drone pipping fungicides into the canopy. “The drone is only putting out 2 gal.

With a 625-lb. payload, the Pelican can carry 20 times more liquid than drones now used for crop spraying. Credit: Pyka For a startup, speed to market is everything. And California-based Pyka has a ...

NEWARK, DE / ACCESS Newswire / March 10, 2026 / The global agricultural equipment landscape is entering a new phase of technological transformation as farmers increasingly adopt precision farming ...

"One size fits all." That’s a common saying, but it’s not always true, especially when it comes to spraying pesticides on crops. There are dozens of specialty crops, and different crops require ...

A California-based startup developing autonomous electric crop-spraying aircraft has raised $11 million in seed funding in a round led by Primer Movers Lab. Pyka is testing a battery-powered ...

May is normally a slow-down zone for used equipment auctions, but today there is ample activity taking place in the market. The heightened action is due to the COVID-era expansion of online equipment ...

LARIMORE, N.D.—John Morten, who learned to fly as a boy of 17, provides a textbook example of how to keep potatoes safe from blight. It’s a big deal this year because, for the first time in a decade, ...