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CBS2/Fox28: Iowa City company offering drones to make farming more efficient
May 20, 2019
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa City based company Rantizo is making waves in the farming community with their new drone systems aimed at making crop dusting more efficient.
“One of the overarching issues is population is growing but there are fewer people working in agriculture,” Michael Ott, the CEO for Rantizo said. “We need to be more precise and use technology and automation that’s exactly what we are doing, understanding what the core problems are which is labor and availability of chemicals and delivering right where they need to be.”
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