Ashley Adair Shares UAV Applications in Horticulture with AGRY 598 Students

April 3, 2026

Aerial view of chickens in mobile coops at Meigs

Aerial view of chickens in mobile coops (chicken tractors) from the Bilenky Lab’s integrated crop-livestock systems study at Meigs in June 2025.

Ashley Adair presented a guest lecture on “UAV’s in Horticulture” during AGRY 598: Crop Management, Drone Flight, and Imaging on March 31st. Students learned about current and past projects in HLA, including research on the Purdue Student Farm, sweetpotato and strawberry research from the Meyers Lab, watermelon trials managed by Wenjing Guan and the team at SWPAC, and integrated crop-livestock systems research in the Bilenky Lab.

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