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Drones, the farmer's new best friend

Posted by Hai Tran on August 23, 2013 at 6:01am

A few months back there was a story that PETA had acquired some drones and were planning on spying on farmers.  Many users of this technology might have been concerned that this questionable use might cause farmers to "shoot down" innocent drones operating near their properties.

Instead, farmers have embraced this technology and produced their own drone video.

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  • LanMark August 23, 2013 at 10:42pm
    Sure is a lot of fun.
  • HeliStorm August 23, 2013 at 10:28pm
    Nothing as cool a this though.
  • HeliStorm August 23, 2013 at 10:26pm
    LanMark...I remember a neighbor of my Grandparents putting in a satellite dish which allowed them to get downlinked satellite feeds from weather satellites. This would have been in the '80s. It was very cool tech at a time before the internet was capable of providing such data.

    I took some flight footage of the same farm earlier this year as a favor to the long-standing family friends. My family and their family have been neighbors nearly 200 years.
  • Andrew Rabbitt August 23, 2013 at 7:29pm

    Nice one Hai. That's very artistic!  Did you guys do the shooting?  If so, congratulations are in order.

  • LanMark August 23, 2013 at 1:52pm

    Because of my AgPixel software product I work with a lot of producers (farmers) and the one thing they are definitely not, are hicks... Just because they work in the dirt doesn't mean they aren't sophisticated business professionals..  they are also one of the first groups of people to embrace new technologies.   How many people do you know that drive around half million dollar or million dollar pieces of equipment? :)

  • Adam Conway August 23, 2013 at 10:53am

    I love the comments about farmers - So many people treat farmers like hicks rather than sophisticated business-professionals running complex operations - and as people who are not afraid of technology.  

  • LanMark August 23, 2013 at 9:31am

    What is interesting is that a lot of livestock doesn't know what to make of a hex.  Reminds me of that great video from National Geographic showing off their tools such as their UAVs.. if you haven't seen this totally worth a watch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LlXc1Otfk&feature=player_embedded

  • Crashpilot1000 August 23, 2013 at 9:17am

    Very nice. Sheep move like particles.

  • LanMark August 23, 2013 at 9:07am

    nice..

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