The drone market today has now grown into a multi-billion dollar industry
Drones have been referred to as one of the most multipurpose and resourceful innovations of the century.
Many people have found drones to provide them with incredible value, in a myriad of ways, whether for commercial use or personal enjoyment. And one valuable way that they've been utilized is in helping farmers to take better care of their crops.
Drones On The Farm
For example, they can use drones to assess whether or not their crops are stressed, have been trampled on, if they're damaged or unhealthy etc. Drones are able to help them to specifically locate a problem area and when they can do this, it helps them to limit their use of pesticides and fungicides etc, because they no longer need to go with a widespread application of it.
By using the drones to help them locate exactly what is going wrong with their crop, it lets them be able to directly apply any needed remedy. And that helps them stay away from applying it to crops that they ideally wouldn't want or need to spray.
Drones have been helping those in the agriculture space to be able to scan the crops, to monitor livestock, and much more.
The more information that they have about their crops, the better a decision they can make about what to do. And when they would traditionally employ the help of a manned aircraft to carry out this kind of work, you can see how it's an option that's definitely going to save them a lot of money. And farmers often don't have a lot of extra money to spare and so any way that they can save some time and money will undoubtedly be of great value to them.
Learning How To Operate Drones
One previous survey that questioned over 1k farmers, asking them whether or not they'd consider using drones, about 31 percent responded in saying they'd consider it.
And that can mean they would either operate it themselves or they would seek out someone else to operate it for them.
From mapping and general surveying, to crop dusting, planting, irrigation management, livestock monitoring and more, it's easy to see why many in this space might find drones appealing. And why they might have considered making the move to incorporate drones into their work life, if it can help to make things more efficient at the end of the day.
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Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/drone-sales-in-us-chart-2017-5
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/
http://www.businessinsider.com/commercial-drone-uses-agriculture-business-military-2017-8
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/drone-technology-on-the-rise-1.4633625
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/18456/drones-in-agriculture-how-uavs-make-farming-more-efficient
https://www.virgin.com/virgin-unite/business-innovation/i-was-first-farmer-us-use-drone
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I never thought about it but Yea! drones would be great for farmers. Lots of problem solving and implementation. Too bad we didn't have drones when I was younger. This is an area where technology is a great benefit. Very interesting info and thanks for the information.
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I suppose farming is fairly technically advanced already with the multi million dollar combines run by GPS navigation but this is neat. I can't imagine farmers becoming couch potatoes and just flying drones around but it would be a real awesome way to keep an eye on so many acres.
It is going to be a damn expensive drone that has the power to distribute larger volumes of pesticides so you can see the demand for proper training going up so you don't end up destroying the equipment.
Would help the corn farmers spot the marijuana planters who sneak onto their land to plant a little something something too.
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Drones are the best things going for farmers @doitvoluntarily ! thanks for sharing this awesome post , upped earlier on my Auto Voter now resteemed ! 👍✌💕
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more smart decisions are being made everyday, its nice to see thanks for sharing.
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Glad to see drones being used for good not evil! Thanks for sharing such great info. Wish I had more time to see your work and others. Just crazy busy balancing work and play here in Buenos Aires. Only four days left and I'm back in the states! Hope you are well my steem brother!
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It's cool to see more of what I'd consider "useful applications" for drones. I'm sort of done with the whole "look how cool my house looks from above!" novelty stage.
The other day I was talking to someone at our gallery and he turned out to be a park ranger in Montana... said they were increasingly using drones to watch animal movement patterns AND to get overviews of "hot spots" when fighting brush and forest fires.
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using less pesticides because you use them locally where needed only is a very attractive thought, I hope it will become standard procedure as soon as possible!
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It makes a lot of sense using drones in agriculture. After all, farms tend to be very large. Perhaps in the future all cattle will be able to roam free while having each their own service drone which helps them to find water, food, shelter, companionship and knows when the perfect time has come to lure the cow to the butcher.
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Apparently technology is taking over every corner again, this seems great, maybe much more direct and practical, but we are full of drones doing man's work everywhere, this is worrying, my work will be worth a little further ahead, also at this rate, my son will have a robotina at home.
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after the wire, I think it is the best invention of man, an artifact with multipropositos uses, from remis, even in the field. As I always say an element is good when it is used for a good, we know that wicks people use these parathreads negatively.
Thank you very much for keeping us informed dear friend / @ doitvoluntarily
I wish you a prosperous week
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Well, the level of advancement in agriculture keeps increasing day by day..it is better for the farmers at least it would save them the stress and even the money to get this pesticides. Farmers will be able to produce better farm products
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I saw a video on Youtube 1 year ago, it has an image analyzer software that after camerawork on a farm uses it on a laptop.
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Hello very good friend your post for anyone who wants to start in this, excellent and good work, @upvote I invite you to take a walk on my blog thanks
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I can really see this helping
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Excellent information for those who are interested in the field, thanks for sharing linda
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You have some money then you buy a drone but if you don't learn how to How To Operate Drones then you are failure .
so Thanks for share Learning How To Operate Drones.
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