Brenden Hubele From Weise, Idaho, explains the benefits of AG drones in comparison to traditional methods of crop spraying. I was looking for the next step, and one of those next steps could have been flying an ag plane for a crop dusting business, but it's a lot harder, a lot more barriers to entry, and it's a lot more dangerous. And then I found out about the drone thing, did a bunch of research, wrote up a business plan. We're a solution for farmers. The conventional methods for spraying are with an airplane or with a tractor, which they work. But it's always good to have another option, especially a precise one, the drone. You get the precision of a ground rig, not quite as precise, but nearly. It's following a GPS path that will never overspray, never under spray, and it's always ten feet off the ground. It can even follow slope, whereas a tractor can't follow a slope if it's too much of a slope, equipment can't deal with that. Same with a plane. If there's too much terrain, the plane can't follow terrain and spray a field that has too much variance in terrain. So with these drones, we can terrain follow and get 100% coverage of the field. Even if there's terrain and there's very little chance of drift because you're always just ten feet off the ground, we can apply any liquid. So if you wanted liquid fertilizer, if you wanted liquid, pesticide, herbicide or fungicide to kill bugs or weeds or fungus on your crop, we can do that with our liquid spreader, anywhere from two gallons an acre plus. And about the drones themselves, they have about a £200 takeoff capacity. We can spray about five acres in that one tank with one full battery before coming back and loading up. Speaker1: Safer and more accurate. Makes sense.
