FoA 352: Autonomous Electric Crop Dusters with Michael Norcia of Pyka
Future of Agriculture
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Spray by Air - What's the Value Added?
It's actually can be cheaper to spray by air in certain parts of the world than running a ground rig. There obviously are a whole bunch of challenges associated with ground rigs, compaction, not being able to access the field, etc. So those play into the economic decision as well. And did you all have to engineer your own spray system or were you able to use kind of off the shelf? You know, technology for that. We've engineered everything about it, actually. If we had gone with an off the shelf system, it would have been £200 and I think close to $70,000.
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