Drone seeding
Sow where the drill cannot go
Drones broadcast seed and seed pods onto ground that is too steep, too wet or too awkward for a machine.
What this costs today
Cover crops go in late because the drill cannot get on wet stubble. Steep banks, wet hollows and awkward corners are either skipped or damaged by a machine that should not have been there. Reseeding a washed out patch means bringing a drill back for half a hectare.
How the flight runs
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Plan
The target area comes from a boundary you draw or from the gap map produced by an earlier flight.
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Load
The hopper is filled with seed or coated pods and calibrated for the rate you want.
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Broadcast
The drone flies the pattern at a fixed height and speed, holding the rate across the whole area.
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Verify
An establishment flight two to three weeks later counts what actually came up.
What the aircraft carries
- Metering hopper with flow feedback
- RTK positioning
- Downward radar for height hold
On demand, mostly cover crop establishment and repair work.
What you receive
- As applied coverage map
- Rate achieved against rate planned
- Establishment count
- Reseeding list for the gaps
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Area covered per flight
- Seed applied per hectare
- Establishment rate at the check flight
- Area unreachable by machine
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Winter wheat and barley
Establishment gaps, patchy weed pressure, septoria risk and a nitrogen plan that has to follow the field, not a flat rate.
Blocks of 10 to 120 hectares, flown as one route.
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Grassland and silage
Thermal fawn searches ahead of first cut, sward quality mapping, and reseeding where the ground has gone back.
Fields of 2 to 40 hectares, flown at dawn.
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Agricultural contractors
Add scouting, wildlife searches and prescription maps to the work you already do, without buying a fleet.
Portfolios of 500 to 5,000 hectares across many holdings.
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Reforestation and land restoration
Terrain mapping, seed pod broadcast onto ground machines cannot reach, and establishment counts that prove it worked.
Sites of 1 to 500 hectares, including terrain with no vehicle access.
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Organic farms
Without herbicides, weed location decides where the hoe goes, when, and how many passes the field actually needs.
Blocks of 5 to 100 hectares.