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| I’m sure this has been gone over before so I apologize but can someone argue the economics/agronomics of drone application in a corn/bean rotation vs a ground rig on mostly open 30-120 acre fields?
Neighbors and I already all have personal ground rigs. Most everyone has low clearance machines (rogator, Deere, Apache) Drone is really only functional for corn fungicide.
I can hire the corn acres done with a high ground rig, or hire them done by drone for $2 more an acre. I’m not sure why I’d go with the drone in this situation. It seems in the best case scenario a drone is equal to a ground rig application.
If I’m tired of paying the app fee, I could buy my own drown set up… or I could sell my current ground rig and roll it into a 2xxx hour Hagie for around the cost of a drone and trailer set up, and then I have one machine that’s capable of everything.
So what am I missing? Why am I seeing a significant number of acres covered by drone-for-hire and farmer operated drones this year? Some big guys, some smaller. Is it a fad? They aren’t stupid so I know they’re seeing something I’m not just need help putting it together. | |
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Drone Economics
