UAV's

Futuristic flying that delivers data to farmers. Farming from your desk and a laptop may not be very far away. Mark Avery is an expert in unmanned aerial vehicles, something we commonly refer to as drones, and believes that they are going to dictate what goes on in all of agriculture in the very near future. “The UAVs that we have coming here are just small, at the biggest, 2 ft.². They are quad copters, four little helicopters, you just take them up, they are very light, not very big but you get a good camera on there and you can get a lot of very good information. 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 neat going forward, a huge industry in agriculture, no doubt about it. So you don’t have to go out with your crop duster and spray the whole field because you may not need it. If there is just one area that needs it, it will be able to pinpoint. Just like the company you just mentioned with satellites up there can be feeding information back or these you a UAV’s will have their own cameras on their with software. That’s where the money is going to be is in the software, cameras and application equipment.