Eyes In The SkyCattle producers will soon be just a joystick away from monitoring pastures and cattle more accurately than ever before

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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what are thousands of pictures worth? If they help you manage your operation more efficiently, they might be, as the TV advertisement suggests, priceless.While Kevin Price will let you decide the worth of his pictures, the Kansas State University (KSU) professor is pretty sure you'll like what you can learn from a buzzard's-eyeview of your pastures. He's doing research using small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), or radio-operated airplanes for short, the kind you might see buzzing around a city park on a sunny Saturday.