We can see drones being used today to help carry out a variety of activities in the market.
Whether it's delivering life-saving medical supplies, survival equipment and supplies to a remote location, helping plant thousands of trees in a forest, monitoring the clean-up of a road after a car accident, there are many ways that the technology has proven to be useful.
It's not just for military endeavors or private hobbyists, as drones have now made their way into a variety of different industry spaces. You can find them being used in the construction field, for real estate, the transportation industry, and a lot more.
It's been suggested that agriculture could be one of the most promising spaces for this technology to flourish.
One occupation that drone technology has quickly made its way into is within the farming industry. There are a growing number of farmers who are looking to turn to using drones to help them with a variety of tasks that they need to complete.
They can use drones to help them check over the crops and to look for damaged areas, they can assess the health of a crop, can be used to spray and plant crops as well, even carry out soil analysis.
By using the drone for something like planting, it's estimated to help reduce their costs by at least 85 percent.
There are a variety of workshops and other educational forums now available, where farmers can go and learn about how to use drones in order to help them with things like surveying crops and more.
Drones are helping farmers to be able to get the information that they need quicker, especially when it comes to surveying their land after storms etc, and that can help them to reduce losses and save money.
Drones might be growing in popularity, but there are still many people out there today out there who don't know the first thing about getting started with one and all that it has to offer, the capability it has and the potential for what can be done. That's why these sorts of workshops are beneficial to others them learn about getting started; they might not be familiar with Youtube or be able to use online resources to learn about drone technology.
Education is vital when it comes to helping farmers to understand the full potential of this technology and how it might be able to be used in their daily life to assist them in meeting what needs to get done.
If this technology is something that can help them to make better decisions and minimize risk in their field of work then it's clearly something that's helped to improve their way of life.
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Sources:
http://www.kyma.com/news/yuma-applies-for-new-faa-program-to-use-drones-in-agriculture/683429562
http://www.precisionag.com/specialty-crops/drones/agricultural-drones-from-detection-to-diagnosis/
http://savannahnow.com/news/2018-01-11/farmers-learn-ways-check-crops-using-drones
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/503527/these-drones-can-plant-100000-trees-one-day
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a27743/company-wants-drones-to-plant-a-billion-trees/
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Nice. Google's top rated futurist Thomas Frey has guesstimated that there could be 1 billion drones in 2030: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-31/world-of-drones-congress-brisbane-futurist-thomas-frey/8859008
He has also guesstimated that the biggest company on the internet in 2030 is going to be an online school: http://nordic.businessinsider.com/futurist-predicts-online-school-largest-online-company-2016-12?r=US&IR=T.
Thus, it is interesting that he has just teamed up with Bitdegree.
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I think drones will be more and more used. The efficiency of these equipments is incredible and so the advantages are really high.
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Interesting! Quite the jump from horse and cart! I imagine until it slowly gets taken over by the younger generation there will be some resistance. Followed
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I don't know man. The farmers I've met (quite a few, my mom grew up on a cotton farm) have been more than eager to try new tech that makes their job easier.
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Yeah I'm in rural Alberta Canada and believe it or not some people don't have computers or cell phones. Haha just resistance to technology. Can't teach an old dog new tricks type of thing. Them days are definitely coming to an end as the baby boomers age out. My mom has been learning her first tablet and touched a computer for the first time at 60, 4 yrs ago. And does not have a cell phone. But my grandchild who is 5 uses tablets and computers in school and has a cell phone.
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Very cool! I'm hoping to use technology to improve quality of life for my family this year. I'm not a farmer, just a welder and family man.
I love how technology can be used to make life easier. Even being as limited as it is today.
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This is brilliant! It's way easier to see the extent of damage from above rather than standing by it.
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Fascinating however I'm distrustful since I'm utilized to the gigantic spaces of Texas. Planes, beyond any doubt.
rambles appear to little. In any case, I figure the eventual fate of cultivating may be to backpedal to little scale ranches. Possibly we could give better quality sustenance permaculture cultivating strategies.
I'm intrigued to see it attempted, with the goal that the control of our sustenance supply is de-brought together by and by. Family cultivates... we should bring them back!...
Carry on dear...😊😊😊
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Excellent post, very good initiative! The development of new technology like this, is the development towards the future. I invite you to appreciate my last post on this subject, greetings. Boeing's electric drone "Carries more than 200 kg payload"
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Well drafted
The drone is a blessing to humanity and not farmers because it is being used in other aspect of lives
Such as wedding occassions
Or areas where large number of persons are gathered
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Drones are good and they have helped our lives.thanks doitvoluntarily.
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The strategies for the economy is the success of the work
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Interesting but I'm skeptical since I'm used to the huge spaces of Texas. Airplanes, sure; drones seem to small. But I think the future of farming might be to go back to small scale farms. Maybe we could provide better quality food with permaculture farming techniques. I'm interested to see it tried, so that the control of our food supply is de-centralized once again. Family farms - let's bring them back!
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please @doitvoluntarily can we chat privately? good morning happy sunday
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Great article there, I've always thought it's just a matter of time before drones are being used in farming. Do you think it will help with the burgeoning issue of gradually declining population of bees which is not only vital since they produce honey but also they are arguable the most important pollinating agent that helps with crops? I'm curious to see what sort of technology we could use to help this underreported issue.
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The technology is great. It is time farmers are entitled to an education on how to use technology to assist their work. Like using an unmanned aircraft. My father is a farmer. You always lift articles that are very interesting and useful for the community. Thank you for sharing knowledge @doitvoluntarily.
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That is a brilliant idea as it will save them the stress that comes with farming. Good post
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I had access to drones in 2013 and never thought of use in farming. I'd like to learn a little more about how they could plant seeds. Seems tricky lol
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Interesting times we live in. IoT will change everything, just blows my mind how much data usage we will see once we're connected to 5g.
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Such a brilliant invention to have at our disposal. The firefighters here use then to help save lives bu scoping the area of the fire. Brilliant!
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What!!! That's the best post I read today. That's so interesting. Drones do a great work and if technology can help like this, we have a good futur. Thank you for the informations. I will followed you for sure.
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So much yes! I love how automation is making people more efficient and effective. I am not regretting my recent embrace of technology. :)
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Wow @doitvoluntarily ! this is such a great idea , and I can see how very useful for the farmers it would be !! Just think about how much money and time it will save them and their crops !! I love it , thanks for sharing the information with us all !! upped and resteemed🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
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Manual jobs are gone. Welcome to the era of the automated
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Plenty of room for growth in the market. A robot can't fix your plumbing yet.
Maybe time to start fixing that and investing more in tech companies.
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Not yet but it will, soon. I read an article time ago about lab farams, scientists creating vegetables from scratch.
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Really?? Interesting. Somewhat scary, how did they do it?
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great post! just followed you because i found your posts are good and informative. :)
you can also check my feed and add back :)
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i think Drone will really help alot, Technology has really evolved let the farmers look through that direction and tap into it.farmers using Drone will be a good idea. i remembered a friend of mine who requested a huge sum of money from me just to teach me how to make a Drone
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I learned something new today, thank you. I’d much more prefer to see drones planting seeds then annoying people in parks 😁 great article, 100% upvote
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