Author: trevgerman
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Leveraging Drone Stand Count Maps
Leveraging drone stand count maps are crucial to gaining insights into how the soil and planter are performing. Traditional forms of gathering stand count information requires a lot of man hours. They also cover a small portion of the field. This makes it difficult to gain field wide insights on the emergence of your crop.…
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Drone Cover Crop Seeding
Although drones might not have the capacity of a ground rig or seed drill, they are still an economically sound option when it comes to seeding cover crops. Over the past decade cover crops have grown in popularity and don’t show any signs of slowing down. The United States Department of Agriculture states that 20…
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Licenses and Certifications Needed to Operate a Spray Drone
With agricultural drones starting to pick up in popularity all across the country there are a lot of questions arising. It can be confusing when you start this process but this article will give you a roadmap of what needs to be completed to get licenses and certifications for spray drones. Part 107 License When…
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How Drones are Used in Agriculture
Drones are soon becoming the Swiss-army knife of technologically advanced agricultural tools. Drones serve many different purposes when used on the farm. Mostly, they are used to replace manual labor-intensive jobs that can become costly and inefficient. This includes tasks such as crop scouting, field mapping, spraying, and spreading. Crop scouting and field mapping rely…