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 ...

"We're spraying crops that previously have not being sprayed," says Nick Nawratil, chief operating officer of Hylio, the firm behind the trial. "That's one huge opportunity that drones are opening ...

“I used to struggle with labor shortages and the difficulty of spraying such large crops manually. Now, with drones, I can spray much faster and more effectively,” Niranjan explains. The ...