Droneblog           Guest Post By: Emily Folk

Drone Rentals Increasing In Agricultural Equipment (Click link to read the entire and original blog)

Benefits of Renting and Financing Drones

Renting a drone gives you the opportunity to try out the different types of drones (multicopter or fixed wing), cameras and sensors attached to the drone, mapping and analysis software, etc. It also provides the opportunity to try out the various brands and packages that are available. Perhaps, you are very interested in incorporating drone mapping and surveying technology into your agriculture management but simply can’t afford the upfront purchases. The solution to this may be to seek financing for the aerial equipment. There are some companies that allow financing as low as 0% for qualifying purchases. It is certainly worthwhile to look into adding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in this manner. It may feel a little scary to invest money and time into implementing a whole new way of managing your field and crops but the increase in the efficiency and precision for early detection of crop details, such as, potential disease, plant stress, water needs, crop growth, quantity and quality of the plants is truly invaluable. It could be a total game changer for the end-of-season crop yield. 

The Future for Precision Farming

Tech companies are discovering how beneficial it to use technology to obtain the field and crop details needed to increase the overall yield and quality of a farmer’s crop for the season. They are hard at work to continue the advancement of the equipment, devices and software for the monitoring, managing and analyzing for agriculture. Radiofrequency technology is one of the technologies that is quite valuable to the devices being developed for agricultural solutions for precision farming. It is readily used in the sensors and the autonomous vehicles. It is able to transmit signals over a long distance which is quite useful for farmer’s that need to overcome the problem of having little to no WiFi accessibility at their fields.   

Radiofrequency Tech, RF Wireless Technology: A radio signal, RF, that is a wireless electromagnetic signal used for communication purposes. Their radio frequencies range from 3kHz – 300 GHz.

(Last Edit: 27 Jan 2023, Kellee)