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southern MN | A lot of that is going to up to your customers, and you, and how your marketing skills are.
Are you in a go get em high tech community, or an older, slower, I'm not sure how a computer works ag community? Probably would have a different approach in those different areas.
Are you looking to do a few farmers for fun and some small profit, or are you looking to grow into a company with employee crews doing the work in a 7 county area?
Are you familiar with yield maps and prescription shape files and all that already, or are you jumping into the unknown entirely? What services are you wanting to offer, and do your customers actually want? A lot of stuff is still real learning curve, we haven't gotten to where we want to be with all this yet, so what service can you offer?
A real NVDI camera along with a good camera on the same big drone, or winged drone, is probably 'best'. But you are looking at the cost of a good used tractor there......
A Phantom 3/4 is a good starter drone for you to play with and learn what it is you end up wanting. I think the Inspire might allow you to add an NVDI camera, but it costs more to fool around with in the beginning.
All of this is evolving quickly, if you spend a year or two learning what you want to do, you will get to junk it all and start over with the next generation of hardware/software, that's how fast it is changing.
So, what do you start with, how fast will you learn what you are doing, how many customers will you get?
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Starting Drone business for Agriculture
