Root & Tabors
Root and tuber crops such as potatoes and sugar beet are high-value, high-input crops where early intervention and precision management are critical to protecting yield and quality. FarmingByDrone gives you the visibility and control needed to manage these crops more effectively.​
Using high-resolution and multispectral imaging, we identify emergence variability, gaps, soil compaction issues, and early signs of stress across your fields. In potatoes, we can detect conditions linked to blight risk before it becomes visible, enabling faster, more informed decisions. Variability in crop development is clearly mapped, helping you target inputs where they will deliver the greatest return.​
When treatment is required, our drone spraying service allows for precise application of fungicides, nutrients, or other inputs directly to affected areas. This targeted approach reduces chemical use, lowers costs, and ensures rapid response—particularly important in fast-moving diseases like blight.​
Drones also eliminate the need for heavy machinery passes, reducing soil compaction and preventing crop damage, while allowing access to fields in wet or difficult conditions.
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Scouting & Mapping​
Drone based Insight & Analysis:​
- Precise early establishment insights
- Early yield forecasting​
- Blight and disease risk mapping ​
- Irrigation management insights
- Ongoing Development and health assessment ​
- Variable crop health mapping (NDVI/NDRE)​
- Rapidly identify and map issues precisely​
- Minimising need for blanket application ​
- Map Precision Targeted Application ​
Seeding ​& ​Spreading
Drone Based Spraying, Seeding & Application:​
- Precision Targeted Application​
- Reduced chemical use and cost through targeted application​
- Apply Targeted fungicide application in high-risk zones​
- Spraying access not limited by ground conditions​
- Reduced diesel usage and cost​
- Minimise soil compaction and crop loss​
Spraying
Commercial impact​
- Lower costs, higher yields and improved margins​
- Reduce input costs (fertiliser, chemicals)
- Reduced cultivation costs (Diesel)
- Reduced cultivation soil compaction and crop loss​
- Higher yield and consistency across fields
- Improve crop quality premiums and margins
- Reduce rejection risk in food-grade markets
- Enhance rotational performance (nitrogen benefits)
Scouting & Mapping​
Drone based Insight & Analysis:​
- Precise early establishment insights
- Early yield forecasting​
- Blight and disease risk mapping ​
- Irrigation management insights
- Ongoing Development and health assessment ​
- Variable crop health mapping (NDVI/NDRE)​
- Rapidly identify and map issues precisely​
- Minimising need for blanket application ​
- Map Precision Targeted Application ​
Seeding ​& ​Spreading
Drone Based Spraying, Seeding & Application:​
- Precision Targeted Application​
- Reduced chemical use and cost through targeted application​
- Apply Targeted fungicide application in high-risk zones​
- Spraying access not limited by ground conditions​
- Reduced diesel usage and cost​
- Minimise soil compaction and crop loss​
Spraying
Commercial impact​
- Lower costs, higher yields and improved margins​
- Reduce input costs (fertiliser, chemicals)
- Reduced cultivation costs (Diesel)
- Reduced cultivation soil compaction and crop loss​
- Higher yield and consistency across fields
- Improve crop quality premiums and margins
- Reduce rejection risk in food-grade markets
- Enhance rotational performance (nitrogen benefits)