Skysense

06/18/2026

Don't let birds take a bite out of your profits!

Harvest season means one thing for a lot of growers: a race against the clock to get fruit in before birds find it first. A single flock of birds can do real damage to a block in 48 hours, often before anyone notices.

The good news is bird pressure is predictable, even if it's not always preventable with the same old tools. Knowing the threat window matters as much as having a plan for it.

What's been your biggest bird challenge this season — and what have you tried so far?

06/17/2026

Strong size, strong color, high quality fruit — that's the early word on Northwest cherries this season from the Washington State Tree Fruit Association.

That's good news worth protecting! As harvest gets closer, so does the bird pressure window — usually the last 2-3 weeks before picking, right when sugar content rises. If you're a cherry grower watching this season closely, now's a good time to have a bird deterrent plan in place.

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association says crop quality looks promising despite ongoing drought conditions.

06/16/2026

Meet Lance Robinson — Skysense intern, drone pilot, and future ag innovator!
Lance is a Richland, WA native heading into his senior year at WSU Pullman, where he's studying Field Crop Management with a minor in Precision Agriculture. With his FAA Part 107 drone license in hand, Lance is flying missions, doing GIS work, and getting his boots dirty in the field with our team this summer. Whether he's in the air or on the ground, Lance brings energy and a love for agriculture that fits right in here at Skysense. Welcome to the crew, Lance!

WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences

06/11/2026

Written by Heidi Pitts (Sponsored) Harvest season is coming. For growers of blueberries, cherries, apples, and other high-value crops, tight labor, thin margins, and relentless bird pressure are constants. With bird damage costing the U.S. fruit industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually — ...

06/04/2026

Bird damage is one of the most persistent and costly threats facing blueberry growers today. As The South Carolina Grower notes, traditional deterrents like air cannons and reflective tape offer limited, inconsistent results at commercial scale.

There's a smarter approach.

Skysense deploys semiautonomous drones to actively patrol crops and deter birds with precision — no noise pollution, no labor overhead, and no gaps in coverage. Our technology gives growers a proactive line of defense that scales with their operation.

Bird pressure doesn't take a day off. Neither do we.

What happened to these blueberries Humans aren’t the only things that love blueberries. Birds treated these berries like a buffet. Birds are one of our biggest pests in blueberries. It is pre…

05/08/2026

Fruit Growers News is on the ground today at the Florida Blueberry Growers Association meeting, where growers, researchers and ag technology companies are sharing ideas and innovations shaping the future of the blueberry industry.

One technology drawing attention on the trade show floor comes from Skysense.
Their automated drone system is designed to help growers manage one of their most persistent challenges — bird damage in blueberry fields.

The system patrols fields autonomously and helps prevent flocks from settling in plantings. In addition to bird mitigation, the platform also provides crop health analysis, w**d mapping, stand counts and site-specific herbicide maps — part of the growing shift toward precision agriculture tools in specialty crops.

Great conversations today with growers and innovators about how automation and data-driven tools are helping protect yields and improve efficiency.

Growers: what methods are you currently using to manage bird pressure in blueberries?

03/19/2026

Skysense is fully moved into the new HQ in Historic Downtown Kennewick! The building used to be a bank. We’re keeping all of our top secret AI models in the safe where they’ll be…safe.

02/10/2026

02/03/2026

Bird pressure doesn’t have to be part of blueberry harvest.

As harvest approaches across the Southeast, Skysense is deploying remotely operated drone systems to protect blueberry crops during peak ripening—without requiring an on-farm pilot.

🌿 We install the system.
🚁 We fly the drones.
🫐 You keep the fruit.

If bird damage has been cutting into your yields, now is the time to get ahead of it.

12/25/2025

We at Skysense respect the hard work American farmers do every day so families can enjoy abundance at the table during the holidays. Skysense is honored to help our farmer partners strengthen their crop protection with Al and automation.

We wish you time to gather with family and celebrate the impact of your work—providing not only for your own families, but for many others whose modern comforts are made possible by you.