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  • Spotlight on Economics: Is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for You?

    Cheryl J. Wachenheim|Mar 1, 2017

    Professor NDSU Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department Along with my agribusiness class, I watched, in considerable awe, the beautiful video images of the fields and facilities of a local seed company as they were projected on the classroom screen. The soundless video showed crystal-clear footage taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also called a drone and, by the Federal Aviation Administration, an unmanned aerial system (UAS). Two decades previously, my family received a knock on the door of our farmhouse in central Illinois. Ou...