Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
UAVs fly high at InfoAg demonstration
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are part of the future of agriculture and the future is here. It was in a central Illinois cornfield and along a private airstrip where representatives from three companies demonstrated their UAVs (also known as drones) to farmers, precision ag folks and others on Monday. Three companies demonstrated three very different looking machines. One looked like a mini helicopter and weighed 28 pounds. Another looked like a large bird in flight and, while made of foam, weighed only one pound. The machines can be controlled remotely by growers and the aircraft does the high-tech scouting for them. Images and date are processed in some cases by the time the vehicle lands. The UAVs can be programmed ahead of time or controlled as you go...more
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