SC Ohio | sloughclub - 11/2/2026 11:16
I can agree with most of that except the part about drones not getting any closer to virtually any thing an airplane will be cautious around, the house right across the road from my shop was sprayed around many many times over the years with a plane , that house also has high line wires all around it , 300 ft was about average how close planes got to that house and yard , drone spray distance from anything of the sort is easily adjusted from the controller in literally seconds , put the drone 5 feet above the crop with very course droplets and you can easily get within 10 foot of the grasss in the yard and never see a speck , high line poles a drone can get the bottom of each pole wet with spray but not the middle of same pole , plane just not gonna do that or even close and that’s easily done with drone , these are the kind of things that are pretty important to farmers like me that have no trouble knowing the exact job I get done with an aerial application, again the very consistent overlap streaks a drone leaves means zero to me as a farmer .
Oh I’m not saying the drone can’t get to those places, just saying a lot of guys don’t. At least around here. I’ve had growers tell me we get close to field edges and wires than the drones have for them in the past.
The other issue I see with any application whether it be drone or aircraft, if we streak a field with overlap, you say that doesn’t bother you, you understand what all goes on in an application, but some people who want to be difficult will look at that and say they lost yield in the area that didn’t get as much applied. I’ve seen it happen and seen it turn into a lawsuit. That’s the danger of applicators making streaks the norm.
Edited by Wes Friesen 11/2/2026 10:49
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Drone streaking
