Page 27 2025 Logan County Spring Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March 2025 which is the spot you take off in, for safety reasons. They also have obstacle avoidance on them so unless that’s turned off it would be very difficult to fly into anything.” If you follow CIA on social media, you may have seen one of their “pretty pictures”, a video of harvest 2023 from a bird’s eye view https://www.facebook.com/ reel/254801677580949 In the last two to three years, America has begun to catch up with countries such as Japan, Korea, China, India, and even Canada. In Canada, an article published by Modern Farmer on June 19, 2023 added an interesting twist to the evolution of drones in agriculture. Drone usage is drawing the interest of the female population and youth on the farm. Use of drones in field scouting is helping smaller farmers where that many times scouting for weeds or disease means walking the fields with a hook and a spray bottle in hand to pull or treat as is needed. With the use of drones, real time video of the field can identify trouble spots and drones loaded with spray can be sent to specific locations for targeted applications. The use of drones is costly, but much more cost effective than other agricultural equipment such as the large spray rigs that are used for full-field applications. Purchasing a spray drone with a 10-to-13-gallon tank and spare batteries can run up in $20,000 to $30,000 range with training and FAA licensing included. This is much less than the hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the large spray rigs utilized mostly by chemical and fertilizer dealerships. Even so, the price tag may be prohibitive for some producers. On the other hand, the drones are now starting to enter into the services offered by those dealerships. In the spring of 2024 Sun Ag in Emden offered local high school students a day of education and demonstration of the use of drones in their Continued --
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