Future Farming: What to look for when buying your first application drone

While use of spray application drones has grown exponentially across the globe in the past two years, this has largely been the result of the introduction of proper rules and […]
Progressive Farmer: Drones swarm farm fields

A heavy downpour would be a disaster for most field days. But the muddy mess was the perfect opportunity for Michael Ott, the CEO of Rantizo, to show off how […]
American Farm Bureau: Pandemic doesn’t slow down ag entrepreneurs
In this article, FBNews catches up with previous Ag Innovation Challenge participants to find out where they are now, how they were affected by the pandemic and how participating in […]
Bayer Shaping Agriculture: Drones Revolutionize Farmer’s Lives

The successes of the initial drone usage in Chinese rice paddies are capturing the attention of other global farmers and creating new opportunities for Bayer to enable growers to use […]
The Gazette: Ernst sees water quality benefits of agricultural drones

As she pushed a button to bring the eight-propeller drone back to the ground, dandelion fluff swirling in the air, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst joked that she was ready for […]
CropLife: 5 Ag Tech Trends to Watch in 2021

Optimism is a powerful force in agriculture. And thanks to a strong 2020 cropping season, solid grain demand from trading partners over the winter and spring, and a pandemic that […]
CropLife: Ag Drones (Again) on the Rise

Entering the 2021 growing season, it’s a different ballgame. We’ve sloughed off a boatload of ill-fated business ventures centered around drone technology. We’ve seen dramatic improvements in technology, in particular […]
The Scoop: How drone applications can fit into ag retail

Ag Partners Cooperative in Kansas is thinking about the big picture with technology advances and heading to the field with a smaller sized application technology. Rantizo CEO Michael Ott and […]
Tri-State Livestock News: Drone-grown, Automating the future of ag

We might not be driving Jetson-envisioned flying cars yet, but in the past five years unmanned aerial systems, or drones, have merged from futuristic novelties into farm equipment. This crop […]
The Tech Tribune: Profile of a Founder

An exclusive Tech Tribune Q&A with Michael Ott of Rantizo, which was honored as 2021 Best Tech Startups in Iowa. (…) Read More
The Modern Acre Podcast: From investing in agtech to founding an agtech startup

Michael Ott is the founder and CEO of Rantizo, an agtech startup that addresses both the field needs of farmers and the business needs of custom applicators with the platform’s combination […]
The Van Trump Report: Rantizo brings “Spraying Drone Swarm” to fields near you

Farmers that have embraced drones in their agricultural operations tend to use them for crop monitoring purposes but Iowa-based ag startup Rantizo thinks drones can do much more to help […]