Massive Spray Drones Are Transforming Agriculture With Win After Win
, a North American manufacturer of agricultural spraying drones . The two episodes of the podcast that resulted tell a fascinating story of agricultural technical transformation.
Agricultural drones are pervasive, as I discovered after the discussion. Erickson’s guess was 15% usage by the two million farms in the US, either as a service or with direct ownership, but statistics suggest current usage is a lot closer to 100% than not, with 75% of farmers surveyed in 2018 having used or planning to use drones.
Running tractors across taller crops crushes a lot of them, and it can be tough to get into corners and around obstacles to get good coverage. And you often can’t run tractors in wet fields when fungus is blooming because they’ll get stuck or rip up the ground too much. I did a bunch of research post our discussion and documented much of this in greater detail in an articlea month ago, so read that to find out more.
That 30% to 50% reduction in inputs and much lower inputs being wasted in adjacent areas and water ways is big. While the major annual post-harvest fertilization is done with tractors as it often involves hundreds of pounds of fertilizer per acre, the subsequent 4-5 passes being vastly more efficient means that especially ammonia-based fertilizers are reduced. That has two benefits.
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