Farmers Are Turning to Swarms of Drones as Labor Costs Soar
Iowa startup Rantizo saw its drone flights triple last year
A Rantizo drone
Source: Rantizo LLC
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Farmers are increasingly deploying drones to spray their fields as growers look for alternatives to tight labor markets and heavy machinery that can knock over crops.
While traditional land-based tractors and crop-dusting airplanes can still deliver larger amounts of herbicides or other crop chemicals, drones hovering over fields are less disruptive to developing plants during the growing season.