The short answer is yes. The first place people have been earning is green house shading. It pay's very well and there's more than you would think in the UK. At the moment the areas to earn money are what niche ones, like seeding, fertiliser spreading but as soon as plant protection products are authorised in the UK, this will become much more wide spread. To give you something specific, they guys from QuadRotor Services bought 1 x P40 drone last year. They now have an order in for 2 x P100 Pros because they have so much work.

Ok sounds interesting 🤔 I've seen your previous videos about greenhouses but I'll start looking into it in more depth. Is there a hopeful date on chemical spreading?

@@jamescoe6466 The first PPP Chems have been approved. In fact we were spraying on PPP's most of this week. These were under trial permits which will become more accessible over the coming months. It will then be an ongoing process with each PPP chem being authorised individually.

Thanks for the feedback. It's an exciting time in agri-drones. It really is the dawn of a new era...

@@autospraysystemscertainly looks that way. 👍

You're starting in the right place. Get your GVC and some flying hours. Then if you're interested in getting qualified to fly these large agri-drones, check out the links in the video notes.

Thanks for the question. At the moment, it's not legal to spray Plant Protection Products (PPP's) in the UK. If they appear on the Pesticide register you have to apply for special permission to apply them from a drone. So to answer your question, no, there's no dosage info on the packing but... This will change over time. There is a strong focus from the Government to get commercial drones into regular operations in agriculture. This area is regulated but the Health and Safety Executive in the UK, more specifically the Chemical Regulation Division (CRD) manages this process and we're working closely with them to make spraying PPP's by drone a reality. I've done a video about this. It'll be online over the next week or so.

Hi Geth, thanks for the question. The preliminary results point to an optimal spray width of 3.5 meters. The final experiments will be completed in Jan/Feb 2024 and we'll publish a report after that.

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We were using 9Kg's per hectare

@autospraysystems that's a very high rate? What is the lowest rate you can do and do you use a carrier product, if so what do you use?

@@gethda Yes, it was at the high end. With a lower capacity auger fitted you can go down to 2kg per hectare

Many farmers are used to outsourcing spraying operations to specialist companies. Agricultural Contractors are part of the normal way of working in the UK. Also, some farmers will only need this service at certain times of year and investing in training and equipment mean they would rather outsource. All that said, the largest market in the short term will be specialist markets like green house shading. These are high value areas and drone offer the fastest and safest way of applying the paint.

Are you about on Friday?

Approx 3m above the canopy

Approx 3m above the tree canopy

Thanks. This is a common mistake in the Uk. 😀

The power is electric. Which country would you be operating the robots in?