Agricultural Drone Services
Agricultural drone services cover far more than spraying. Compare ag-drone operators on Ag Drone Sprayers by the work you need — spraying, cover-crop seeding, dry spreading, aerial mapping, and crop scouting — then request free quotes from FAA-certified operators who cover your area.
Spraying
Fungicides, herbicides, and pesticides applied by spray drone with precise, low-drift coverage — over tall canopies, wet ground, and point rows a ground rig can't reach.
Cover Crop Seeding
Aerial cover-crop seeding and inter-seeding into standing crops, broadcasting seed weeks before harvest with no soil compaction.
Dry Spreading
Dry granular fertilizer, seed, and amendments spread evenly across fields, levees, and rough terrain a spreader truck can't cover.
Aerial Mapping
High-resolution NDVI and RGB imagery that reveals stand counts, weed pressure, drainage, and crop-health zones for variable-rate prescriptions.
Crop Scouting
Fast aerial crop scouting that flags pests, disease, and stress with georeferenced imagery before they cost yield.
Drone spraying credentials, explained
- FAA Part 137
- The Agricultural Aircraft Operator certificate the FAA requires to dispense crop-protection products — fungicides, herbicides, fertilizer — from any aircraft, including a drone, for hire.
- FAA Part 107
- The Remote Pilot Certificate every commercial drone pilot must hold to fly small unmanned aircraft for work in the United States.
- Section 44807 exemption
- An FAA exemption that authorizes drones heavier than 55 lbs — which most agricultural spray drones are — to operate outside the standard small-UAS rules.
- Commercial pesticide applicator license
- A state-issued license, usually from the state Department of Agriculture, required to apply pesticides for hire — separate from, and in addition to, the FAA's aviation rules.
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