We’re Earning Our Stripes
the Honest Way
About
Ceres Air is on a mission to build drones for American farmers the way they should be: truly American-made. Our promise? To maximize U.S.-made components and keep every step of the process transparent, so farmers and customers can see the care behind the product. No flashy marketing, no misleading claims, just tools you can trust.
Co-founder Josh Robinson started Ceres Air to do things differently. He wanted to listen to customers, take their feedback seriously, build products that actually make life on the farm easier, and most importantly, be honest about the journey.
Ceres Air is just getting started. By cost, 30 percent of the drone is currently made in the United States, 60 percent is assembled in Springfield, Vermont, and 100 percent of the intellectual property, software, and data lives on AWS servers in Virginia. And while farming is the focus, the bigger goal is to empower communities and open new possibilities through home-grown technology.
We are earning our stripes the right way because American craftsmanship, American manufacturing, and real American jobs take time. Our aim is to be American-made by 2028, because at Ceres Air we are focused on more than just drones. We are launching a movement, one honest part at a time.
Josh Robinson
As the Founder and President of CEREs Air, Josh Robinson’s story begins on a farm in Western Kentucky, where he was raised on values like hard work, resilience, and supporting his community. Throughout his career, even when life took him into corporate retail, he remained tied to the farm. Just like his favourite t-shirt states, when it comes to farming, “you clock in at age five and never clock out”.
While attending Murray State University, Josh pursued a career in corporate retail, and over two decades, His career took him and his wife, Catherine, across six states, where he managed operations at scale, including as many as 18 locations with more than $750 million in annual sales.
Josh became known as a hands-on problem solver, trusted to turn around some of the company’s most challenging districts.
In 2020, Josh retired from corporate retail and returned home to be closer to family and reconnect with farming. That same year, his brother-in-law introduced him to drones. What began as curiosity quickly became a passion, and after months of research and testing, Josh determined that drones were positioned to empower the next generation of farmers, and that he was in a great position to help usher them in...
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