Future of Farming

I had an opportunity to talk with Mark Avery who puts on precision aerial ag shows in the Midwest. Manufacturers and buyers of unmanned aerial vehicles show up from all over the country to witness what I will refer to as the future of farming. “Eventually, like you have in Japan, you will have UAV’s up there that will be spraying chemicals and things like that down the road. After they fly, they can sense where they need to add chemicals so they don’t spray the whole field, if they need to target, that is where precision agriculture comes in. It is going to be a huge industry going forward in agriculture. The US is way behind and even the Canadians are way ahead of us with whatever their version of FAA is up there. Their rules are a lot looser and especially in Europe and Asia from what I am hearing, Japan is just wide open and they have these things lying all over the place in agriculture. The only thing that is holding us back is the FAA coming out with their new regulations which are supposed to come out September 2015. Is it correct to say that a drone in-flight can observe an area in a farm that needs fertilizer or an herbicide or irrigation and it can make that happen immediately? Yes that is where this is all heading.