I'd like to know more about autonomous refilling and recharging. That would be the key to productivity, letting the drone do the job at its own pace without someone having to be there all the time.
Great video! Do you find that farmers are purchasing these drones and managing their operations themselves or is this an area that farmers are outsourcing to drone service providers? Particularly as it relates to crop health and multispectral analysis?
Love your format..not pushing a particular brand..facts,just facts. Question, is there technology yet that will allow for a charged particles in spraying to reduce the drift factor? Just wondering due to the space and weight that would be added to the drone. Thanks again.
I was seriously ready to invest in the T40 and I live in the middle of rice farming fields far as you can see. Also almond trees and walnuts. We have crop dusters seeding rice. They haul a good load of seed per load. Run a truck with a hopper the reload the air tractor. How in the world am I going to compete with a crop duster and be able to spread a semi set of doubles loaded with rice seed? I could bust my butt all day long and no way I can even come close loading the hopper and unload a trailer of seed? No to mention the farmer would laugh at me. The quads are not ready for large field seeding at all. Small field or spot seeding but no way it can dump a set of trailers loaded with seed in a day.
Nobody claimed a drone could handle the kind of acreage you’re talking about. A T40 could do around 40 acres an hour. If your farm is too big, don’t use a drone.
The spraydrone is just another tool in the precision farming toolbox. It's not meant to be competion to big rigs. It has a lot of potential in scenarios where the big machines cannot drive, for example when the soil is to wet, when there are a lot of scattered spots or even when the crop is to high. Also it outperforms all manual operations where it competes against humans, for example in steep vineyards. There is more then enough jobs around the year to keep this amazing technology bussy and make a hefty ROI.
Using drones in farming contributes to sustainable agriculture in terms of social, economic and environmental dimensions. Agricultural Drones Market size was valued at USD 1,197.05 Million in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 6,029.86 Million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 19.68% from 2023 to 2030. The global commercial drone market is projected to reach the size of around 58.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2026. [Statista; Verified Market Research] 8:14
A very interesting video. As your are a Drone seller I have a (sad) question for you. Do you sell or see anyone using ANY Drones that is NOT DJI? I know they make a HUGE variety of drones...and are very good (I have several friends with different Mavic models). I am concerned that the "Drone Industry" is putting ALL of its eggs in a one basket. Full disclosure...I got my part 107 4 years ago...and have dabbled in drone work as a side hustle (alas my day job keeps me too busy to do much). At the time I purchased a Yuneec H520 (with 3 cameras). I love my Yuneec system...but sometime feel like I'm the ONLY Yuneec pilot in the state of Missouri. I actually had someone reach out to me a year and 1/2 ago about "spreading seed" in terrain that is difficult to access. They were developing their own proprietary system. Thanks for the interesting video.
@@AerialInfluence as long as there is eventually competition I good. I’ve spent most of my life as a Mac user. So don’t have to be too dog. As long as the top dog doesn’t kill all the other dogs.
@@lordorian825 I'm never fond of any company that becomes a defecto monopoly. I've no doubt they make good to very good products. But do NOT like there is NO competition (the fact they are made by a company that might one day be direct conflict with our nation doesn't help...and I say that as someone who DOES own a Drone by a Chinese company, Yuneec).
Drones allow farmers to obtain crop data fast and frequently, this keeps them on top of things like irrigation issues, plant disease and soil condition. [Your Drone Review] 8:00
