As an important part of smart agriculture, drones have enriched and optimized the structure of agricultural equipment and perfected the agricultural ecosystem. They are currently widely used by growers for some important aspects of farmland management.

* Spraying and seeding drones: commonly used for high-stem crops, densely planted crops, mature crops, wetland crops, etc.

*  Multi-spectral drones: accurately and effectively convert data into the language of plants, which are commonly used in each growth stage of crops to help farmers intuitively understand the health of crops. Agronomists could use multi-spectral data to analyze crops’ health conditions. Precisely make optimal decisions about the actual crop diseases and insect pests and the nutrient requirements of the crops.

*  Mapping drones: Surveying and mapping drones are mostly used in large areas of farmland. Through AI system analysis, it can quickly obtain high-definition farmland maps and identify farmland boundaries, trees, ponds, buildings, obstacles, etc., so as to help accurately plan the flight route of the required operation area.

Every farm has similarities and differences. We hope that the experience and knowledge of DJI precision agriculture drone equipment that we share can positively help bring out the best of your crop yield and boost up your agricultural business.

For a long time, due to lack of understanding, many of us have had some misunderstanding about agricultural drones:

1- I already have large-scale spraying equipment, do I still need agricultural drones?

For work areas that are not easy to reach by tractors and helicopters, drones can be good agricultural supplement equipment to fill the gaps in the very limited window period. So that to reduce the pressure from pest and disease and increase more yield from land.

For example, this kind of plot: 

Nobody like tracks, here’s the simple aerial solution. Imagine if your crop can increase the yield by 10-20%, maybe more, through such precise digital aerial management technology. Isn’t this a beautiful thing?

For irregular terrain, and slippery hillsides, small plots

Either big sprayer or helicopter would not like to do it…

Drone for rescue! Fast, efficient, and safe. It not only ensures the uniformity of the spreading and spraying work, but also saves the short window period of each of our Acre crops.

DJI AG Drones can not only spray foliar fertilizers, biological agents but also sow seeds and cover crops. We should let the equipment play its due advantage.

2- Application

AG drones can help you manage tall crops, wetlands, target disease areas in time, effectively increase benefits, reduce losses, and easily reach farmland areas that you could not reach before.

3- Is spraying other than pesticides subject to PMRA?

* Use drones for foliar fertilizer, biological, seeding, and spreading urea fertilizer is no problem.

* Regulatory approval of drone application of two microbial pest control products just announced by Canada’s PMRA. Granular formulation, low risk products. Click the link.

4- Save time and cost

* The time to clean the water tank and the material used to clean the water tank

* Time and labor cost for automatic exhaust and calibration

* Saved agricultural investment costs and time costs （ It saves 30-50% pesticides and 80-90% of water)

5- Improve work efficiency

* The drone can automatically navigate, and the left and right deviations of spraying and seeding paths are within 2.47 cm, reducing replay and missed area, and greatly improving work efficiency.

* During the limited crop window period, field management of high-stalk, mature crops, wetland crops such as sterilization, insecticide, weeding, etc.

6- Large area application

* Before you become an experienced drone pilot, we do not recommend that you operate a group of drones at once. You can’t rush for success. Equipment operation requires time for learning and training, and welcome to join our training class for skill operation training courses on DJI agricultural drone equipment.

* At present, drones can be used as a beneficial supplement to large-scale equipment, so as to effectively function where it can be used, thereby increasing output and increasing product quality.

7- Multispectral applications

The combined application of DJI multi-spectral drone technology saves a lot of uncertainty and guesswork about crop health.

Using DJI P4M for crop health diagnosis, and then using DJI Agras drone for variable operation, do you see the colour change from inconsistent to gradually uniform? This means that the crop is growing evenly, and it also means that the yield of each acre can reach the rightmost harvest value you usually see.

For a farm, every bu/acre matters. In the middle and late stages, drones are used for stand corn operations to manage diseases, insect pests and nutrientriants, which can increase an average of 12-21bu/acre. Isn’t it beautiful?

Moreover, the DJI Agras drone can save 30-50% of the dose and 80-90% of the water. Through multi-spectrum, instead of blanket carpet applications, growers can save 20-30% again of pesticides and 10% of fertilizers, and increase production by 10%.

On average, farmland application and management through DJI drone agricultural equipment can save an average of 70% of agricultural management costs.

This picture shows that after precision farmland management is carried out by drones ( Agras drones + P4M), the growth of crops gradually tends to be even, so as to achieve a better effect of increasing crop yields.

The purchase and application of these precision DJI AG drone technology may be the most economically significant investment in your agricultural business.

8- Career planning of drone custom farming

The application of drone technology in agriculture may be the industry with the least input and the highest output.

Calculated based on the work area of a 19-year-old girl in Mexico using a drone for a year of 12,300 Acre. In 2 years, you can afford the down payment for a house.

There are also these career plans to choose from, and large farms can also hire agricultural talents with professional high-tech equipment in these areas:

• Multispectral Data Analyst

• Agricultural land surveyor

• Agricultural drone pilot

• Agricultural drone custom farming

• Agricultural insurance claims adjuster

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