How much does drone spraying cost per hectare in 2027?
€20 to €25 per hectare: one price for fungicide, herbicide, foliar feeding and desiccation. You supply the product and the water at the field, and travel within 50 km of Opovo is free.
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Advice for arable farmers: crop protection, feeding and drone spraying
This advice comes from the field experience of Nikola Mojsa, an agronomist based in Opovo. We write about protecting and feeding wheat, maize, sunflower, soybean and oilseed rape: when to spray against diseases and pests, how to choose a herbicide, when to desiccate and what a drone treatment costs per hectare.
- Drone and price
- Drone and price
Drone or tractor: which is cheaper per hectare
A contract tractor costs about €30 per hectare; a drone costs €20 to €25. Your own sprayer is often the cheapest, but only until the crop grows past one metre. After that a tractor permanently tramples 5 to 6% of the plants, which changes the sums completely.
- Wheat
Second top dressing of wheat and foliar feeding: when and how
The second top dressing goes on 3 to 4 weeks after the first. Because a drone uses only 15 to 20 litres of water per hectare, its foliar feed is more concentrated than a tractor's. The calculation is in the article.
Drone and pricePre-harvest interval and re-entry interval: what they mean and where to find them
The same insecticide has a pre-harvest interval of 35 days in wheat and 42 in oilseed rape. The interval is on the label, separately for each crop.
- Wheat
Top dressing wheat with urea: when, how much and how on wet fields
Urea should be spread by 20 February, and CAN or AN after that. Soil analysis sets the rate: PSS Zrenjanin measured 23 to 235 kg of nitrogen per hectare on fields in Central Banat.
- Maize
Pre-emergence spraying of maize: after sowing, before emergence
Pre-emergence spraying is mostly a job for a tractor. A drone becomes an option when rain keeps the tractor out of the field and the surrounding fields carry the same crop.
Drone and priceDrift in drone spraying: does it reach the neighbour's field?
We spray in winds up to 3 to 5 m/s, fly about 3 metres above the crop, and pause when the wind picks up.
- Drone and price
How much does drone spraying cost per hectare in 2027?
€20 to €25 per hectare: one price for fungicide, herbicide, foliar feeding and desiccation. You supply the product and the water at the field, and travel within 50 km of Opovo is free.
- Drone and price
Drone or tractor: which is cheaper per hectare
A contract tractor costs about €30 per hectare; a drone costs €20 to €25. Your own sprayer is often the cheapest, but only until the crop grows past one metre. After that a tractor permanently tramples 5 to 6% of the plants, which changes the sums completely.
- Drone and price
Pre-harvest interval and re-entry interval: what they mean and where to find them
The same insecticide has a pre-harvest interval of 35 days in wheat and 42 in oilseed rape. The interval is on the label, separately for each crop.
- Drone and price
Drift in drone spraying: does it reach the neighbour's field?
We spray in winds up to 3 to 5 m/s, fly about 3 metres above the crop, and pause when the wind picks up.
- Wheat
Second top dressing of wheat and foliar feeding: when and how
The second top dressing goes on 3 to 4 weeks after the first. Because a drone uses only 15 to 20 litres of water per hectare, its foliar feed is more concentrated than a tractor's. The calculation is in the article.
- Wheat
Top dressing wheat with urea: when, how much and how on wet fields
Urea should be spread by 20 February, and CAN or AN after that. Soil analysis sets the rate: PSS Zrenjanin measured 23 to 235 kg of nitrogen per hectare on fields in Central Banat.
- Maize
Pre-emergence spraying of maize: after sowing, before emergence
Pre-emergence spraying is mostly a job for a tractor. A drone becomes an option when rain keeps the tractor out of the field and the surrounding fields carry the same crop.
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