Are Drones Replacing Agriculture Aviators?

By Future Farming

Are drones replacing agriculture aviators? I’m going to make this really simple, writes HSE UAV President at Future Farming. The answer is no. Absolutely not. HSE-UAV has been selling spraying drones in America longer than anyone else we know. But 10 years ago we started out as most drone companies: let’s throw a camera on this thing and sell it! Then we realized that camera drones were a dime-a-dozen…there must be a more impactful way to put drones to work.

As a veteran and family owned business, we thought about those industries most important to us and the American economy – we thought “Food, Safety and Environment” (I don’t know about your family – but ours loves food!). That and the market forecasts suggested that 70% of the drone industry would belong to farmers. We had our match!

Enter: drones for agriculture.

We knew about precision ag, but we wanted to do more than just find the problems in a field. We wanted to find and solve them… all with one drone. That brings us to today. Farmers can use a spraying drone to perform a crop health analysis and then use the data to treat their fields. Saving chemicals, labor and money. More money in the farmer’s pocket allows them to be more competitive on a global scale, and that’s good for our economy. How cool is that! And with most of our relatives having been farmers themselves, we felt pretty good about this.