I had no idea of the capabilities of a $9,000 agricultural drone.
The 50 in the name refers to a 50 kilogram payload. This drone has roughly a 14 gallon spray tank—-not quite. They make a 100 kilogram drone, which would hold the standard 25 gallon ag spray tank and then some.
I own a 2005 Yamaha Rhino side by side that cost $10,000 then, that weighs a thousand pounds and it holds a 25 gallon spray tank.
In twenty more years I’ll be 86.
At that age I’ll want a new drone where I can fly around my farm watching the drone spray fence rows.
My grandmother wrote a piece in the Hermatige Index before I was born about a hillbilly encountering a parking meter.
Pa figured out it took coins, and he stayed with the Model T while Ma did the trading so he could feed it again if it went haywire.
Afterwards they had to wait until it ran out, because they’d always been law abiding folks and didn’t want to set no bad example by getting arrested and bringing down shame on the family name.
If she was still alive, Ma and Pa would be certain to have a drone encounter.
Here’s what burns me up, or gets my tail bone to ahurting, as she would say.
The major media ought to have the same Google skills as a little boy who grew up where I could see Bug Tussle from my house every morning.
There is a major media industry today that profits off fear, suspicion, and ignorance, to sell “news”.
And too few educated hillbillies like my grandmother to counter them.
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