Drones in Pendleton

SOAR Oregon, a non-profit organization focused on the development of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems industry in Oregon, has announced a grant award to the City of Pendleton for the establishment of a FutureFarm™ project at the Pendleton, Oregon UAS Test Range. 

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm™ is a 'real world' proving ground designed to help Digital Agriculture Pioneers accelerate product development, reduce cycles, and expand market growth.

Once established in June, it will be the only digital agriculture proving ground of its caliber in the United States. Spokesperson, Chuck Allen. "Developers of agriculture-focused unmanned robotics and data systems will find the Oregon UAS FutureFarm™ has a broad spectrum of high value and commodity crops, multiple layers of remote sensing for benchmarking, as well as access to the agricultural knowledge base they need to test, validate and innovate their next generation of interconnected unmanned and automated agricultural systems.

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm™ features a network of "research friendly" farmers growing a large variety of irrigated and dry-land crops in both traditional and modern farming infrastructures.  Strategic partners include: City of Pendleton, Digital Harvest, SOAR Oregon, Blue Mountain Community College, Oregon State University and USDA Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center."