Robert Blair, farmer and VP of Agriculture for Measure, testified on Thursday, June 23, 2016, before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture's Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Blair was the first person to petition the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to use an unmanned aerial vehicle on a farm.

With the agricultural industry in somewhat of a holding pattern for broad use of unmanned aerial vehicles, the Federal Aviation Administration this week finalized its much-anticipated rule for commercial use of small unmanned drones. The new regulations are set to take effect in late August and provide more detailed, and in some cases, less restrictive requirements for flying UAVs.

The added capability works with the DJI Phantom 4, Phantom 3, and Inspire families of products and provides the agriculture industry with an affordable, end-to-end normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) solution.