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AgProfessional: Drones take two paths to demonstrate ROI in agriculture
August 25, 2020
You can categorize drone use in agricultural into two buckets—for imagery and for application.
“Drones aren’t toys—they are tools,” says Michael Ott, CEO of Rantizo.
Rantizo just received approval for swarming —up to three drones in a single field for application. Swaming Rantizo drones can apply up to 40 acres an hour.
“Previously, our typical jobs were 5 to 30 acre fields, but with swarming, we’ll see much larger fields—80 to 200 acre jobs,” Ott says. (…)
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