Success StoryFungicide Application with Drones



Fungicide Application with Drones

Author: Patrick Hardesty

Planning Unit: Taylor County CES

Major Program: Grains

Plan of Work: Management and Marketing

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Taylor County ranks 35th in the state for grain production.  Due to previous successful fungicide application trials using a drone, some producers are adopting drone application instead of application with helicopter in corn.  With some of our small tree lined fields with poor air drainage where disease pressure his high, a drone is a more effective application method.  Of the approximately 13,500 acres of corn, approximately 9,000 acres are on books to be sprayed with a fungicide.  Drones will be applying a fungicide to approximately 4,000 acres.   In our test trials in Adair, Green, and Taylor Counties under heavy disease pressure fungicide applications have increased corn yields by approximately 23 bushels per acre.  At a 10 bushel/acre increase at $6.50 per bushel will generate an additional $585,000 gross income.






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