From Sky to Soil: How Drones Can Play a Larger Role in Conventional Farming
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05 Sep 19
11:15 AM
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12:15 PM
Drones are now well known to have the capability to help farmers pinpoint possible deficiencies in crops. However, there is an extra step that is often not utilized with that data. Conventional farming utilizes spray rigs and spreaders to apply inputs (herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers) fairly evenly across fields. With the advent of drones, advanced sensors, and analytics, precision farming has truly taken form to use such data to target specific regions with these inputs. Using multispectral technology has given professionals in the Agriculture industry the chance to map weeds and pests in a field for precise targeted spraying, specific zones in an orchard for specific treatment applications and for spreading fertilizers in areas of poor crop production. The utilization of such data is true precision agriculture.