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Analyze Machinery Reliability, Uses When Considering New On-Farm Investments

Consider upgrades that make your fleet more reliable, new uses for machines & projected price increases when assessing potential purchases
As farm machinery costs increase far beyond the rate of inflation, making a new machine pencil out may require some creative thinking about its potential uses and how farm operational expenses will change in the next decade.
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Change to FAA Regulation Allows 1 Operator to Fly 3 Sprayer Drones

FFA regulation exemption for U.S.-based drone maker allows 1 person to operate 3 drones in a swarm, a 3-fold increase in productivity

The FAA recently granted Texas-based drone manufacturer Hylio a regulatory exemption that allows 1 operator to simultaneously pilot 3 heavy-lift drones instead of requiring an operator and observer per 1 drone over 55 pounds. 


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Online Extras: May 2024 Issue

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

  • ‘It’s All About Saving the Planet’: No-Till Living Legend Takes Care of Land at All Costs
  • Remembering Howard Dean Martin (1944-2024) & the No-Till Row Cleaner
  • Q: What Was Your Worst Planting Experience Ever?
  • No-Till Farmer Multimedia
  • No-Till Farmer’s Best of the Web

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Lidar Sensors Show the Invisible in Crops & Indicate Plant Health

New laser-based technology monitors plant health & soil humidity night or day at ranges up to nearly 1,000 feet
Over the past 40 years, agricultural scanning technology has developed rapidly from sprayers able to recognize brown bare soil from very green growing plant material to machines capable of guiding moving sprayers to target individual plants and visually sampling a load of grain for moisture content.
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Conservation Ag Operator Fellowship

‘It’s All About Saving the Planet’: No-Till Living Legend Takes Care of Land at All Costs

Ray McCormick, No-Till Farmer’s 2024 Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, fights for conservation practices in his home state of Indiana & beyond
No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick will do just about anything for conservation. Whether it’s turning farmland into wetlands or buying an electric Ford Lightning F-150 pickup truck, McCormick makes decisions based on what’s best for the environment.
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