Getting Started With Drones on the Farm
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
More and more farmers are finding uses for drones in their operations. But if you haven’t yet tried drones out on your operation how should you start? I asked AgEagle Aerial Systems CEO Bill Irby what advice he would give to producers considering bringing drones onto their farms for the first time.
Irby… “ What I would probably do is ask them a couple of questions first as to what are their biggest yield problems? Where do you find the biggest crop health issues have any issues with soil and planting? I would start with a number of questions like that. But really what you can find fairly quickly with a pretty low cost: where do I need to apply more fertilizer? Where do I need to apply more insecticide in my field? Because this is the trend in that area of the farm that I see happening. So that prevents you from having to. Spray the entire thousands of acres. You can just focus on maybe a 10 acre portion that's having problems with some crop health, that type of thing. So it's an efficiency gain. It'll help with crop yield. Boost crop yield pretty significantly.”
Founded in 2010, AgEagle was originally formed to pioneer proprietary, professional-grade, fixed-winged drones and aerial imagery-based data collection and analytics solutions for the agriculture industry.
