How much area can you spray with your drone? Is a common and Important question because it determines the feasibility of whether or not to use drones in a project! 🤔The common reply is “it depends” Which tends to frustrate people because it’s not a helpful answer, but it really does! 🫤
St john’s wort can be treated with diiferent chemicals, for example; Starane’s application rate is 50 litres per Hectare with little to no overlap making it Ideal for medium size projects. Grazon extra’s application rate is, 200 Litres per Hectare in half overlapping passes, making it only practical for spot spraying.
Two very effective treatments for St Johns’s but, vastly different spray volume per load!🤔
When spraying hilly terrain a higher volume is required to increase spray coverage.⛰️Overgrown or dead Vegetation also requires higher dosage to help penetrate the canopy with more droplets per square metre.🌿🍂
In Ideal situations such as horticultural crops, the field is normally flat and treatments are tried and tested it’s easy to determine how much a spray drone can cover.🍇🌽🥬
When living somewhere like the central west of NSW, drones are often used after it’s been deemed too difficult for traditional equipment! (So, why don’t we try a drone!😃).⛰️
The Application speed, Dosage and Overlap have a huge effect on application area size per load and battery set.🤔
These factors make it difficult to provide an answer for “How much area can your drone spray?” and quite often it needs to be determined on a job to job basis.🤔
So yes it depends! But now you know why!😉
Thanks for reading and I hope this was helpful.
