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<blockquote data-quote="Goodolddays" data-source="post: 8081819" data-attributes="member: 163612"><p>Not so sure aerial application in the UK is as easy as you make out. Very few if any products in the UK can be applied via aerial application. Plane or helicopter application of pesticides on a farm scale I do not think is allowed. Very protective of waterways and pesticides getting into them. As it stands drones would be treated the same as a plane or helicopter, which is the current main stumbling block. Future legislation may treat them differently which would allow more targeted use, but there would be restrictions like maximum height above the crop, how to deal with fields with powerlines running through them etc. First uses might be more targeted spot spraying, as payload restrictions mean whole field applications logistically difficult. Then you have the whole issue if pesticide manufacturers will support control from their products applied this way. They do not test efficacy via drones, is the product hitting the target and getting the same coverage as from a boom 50cm above the crop?</p><p>The way forward will probably be more these field maps captured by drone or satellite linking to the standard sprayer which can then switch on and off in the right part of the field. This type of system already exists.</p><p>So to summarise I think drones spraying crops on a large scale in the UK is a bit of a red herring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goodolddays, post: 8081819, member: 163612"] Not so sure aerial application in the UK is as easy as you make out. Very few if any products in the UK can be applied via aerial application. Plane or helicopter application of pesticides on a farm scale I do not think is allowed. Very protective of waterways and pesticides getting into them. As it stands drones would be treated the same as a plane or helicopter, which is the current main stumbling block. Future legislation may treat them differently which would allow more targeted use, but there would be restrictions like maximum height above the crop, how to deal with fields with powerlines running through them etc. First uses might be more targeted spot spraying, as payload restrictions mean whole field applications logistically difficult. Then you have the whole issue if pesticide manufacturers will support control from their products applied this way. They do not test efficacy via drones, is the product hitting the target and getting the same coverage as from a boom 50cm above the crop? The way forward will probably be more these field maps captured by drone or satellite linking to the standard sprayer which can then switch on and off in the right part of the field. This type of system already exists. So to summarise I think drones spraying crops on a large scale in the UK is a bit of a red herring. [/QUOTE]
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