I like this color scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHfX6ByzIY Perhaps that one might even scare deer or other trespassers away.
There are also videos of these drones carrying cameras. Could you program in search images of egg-laying plum curculios, apple maggot flies and codling moths and do some "spot spraying"? You could add a speaker and supervise u-pickers remotely. One can imagine treating just the tops of trees for codling moth, retreating pesticide-coated red spheres for apple maggot, perimeter row trees for plum curculio. My neighbors might provide the labor for free - two of them spend hours flying their remote-controlled planes in the back yards on our street. ******************************** Thomas A. Green, Ph.D., CCA, TSP President IPM Institute of North America Inc. 4510 Regent St. Madison WI 53705 608 232-1410 Fax 608 232-1440 ipmwo...@ipminstitute.org www.ipminstitute.org www.greenshieldcertified.org -----Original Message----- From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Gary Mount Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:34 AM To: Apple-crop discussion list Subject: Re: [apple-crop] agricultural drones Well, that settles it. I definitely want to be the first kid on my block to get one. Then again, what color will it be painted? Gary Mount Gary Mount Terhune Orchards 330 Cold Soil Rd Princeton, NJ 08540 609-924-2310 609-924-8569 fx 609-462-9672 cell On 2/24/2012 12:25 PM, Dave Rosenberger wrote: > Actually, I just found this video which is much better: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6nQCgGTHw&feature=related > >> Peter Jentsch, entomologist at the Hudson Valley Lab, sent me some >> web info on Yamaha drones used for spraying rice in Japan (see >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds1BeKsZSho&feature=related and >> http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_rmax.htm). Another website >> indicated that these drones were already being used to spray 600,000 >> hectares of rice in Japan in 2005 (the last year included on that >> graph). >> >> ____ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
