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Aerial Agronomy Services

Everything a broad-acre estate needs from the air — scout, prescribe, apply, verify. Detailed application envelopes go out in our specification sheet.

Apply

Spray & spread

Eight application services across crop protection, nutrition and seeding.

Measure

Map & scout

Boundary surveys, orthomosaics, crop-stress index maps, acreage audits.

Decide

Prescribe

Zone prescriptions that cut chemical spend and target real pressure.

Prove

Report & comply

Telemetry logs, re-entry records and audit-ready documentation.

01 · Crop protection

Pesticide, fungicide & insecticide spraying

The core service. Atomised application that penetrates the canopy and coats leaf undersides, where rust spores and aphid colonies actually sit.

  • Wheat & barley: stem and leaf rust, septoria, head blight, aphids.
  • Maize: fall armyworm, stalk borer, grey leaf spot, rust.
  • Rice: blast, sheath blight, stem borer, rice bug.
  • Horticulture: downy mildew, thrips, whitefly, botrytis.
  • Coffee & tea: CBD, leaf rust, red spider mite, thrips.
Application envelope — released in the specification sheet
ParameterWorking range
Spray volume per acre●●●●
Droplet spectrum●●●●
Flight height above canopy●●●●
Effective swath width●●●●
Wind abort threshold●●●●
Verified work rate●●●●
DeliverablesCoverage map, volume applied, dosage & re-entry log

Request the specification sheet and we send the full envelope for your crop and product.

02 · Sugar belt

Sugarcane ripener application

Aerial is the only sane way to ripen tall cane. Ground rigs cannot enter without smashing stalks and carrying disease on their tyres, and manual teams cannot reach the top canopy evenly.

  • Even ripener laydown across mature blocks, timed to the mill schedule
  • Zero stool damage — protects the ratoon for the next cycle
  • Treated-area maps for the mill's agronomy file
  • Programmes structured for estates and outgrower boards
03 · Weed control

Herbicide & invasive weed control

Pre-emergence blanket work, post-emergence selective passes and mapped spot treatment in pasture and fallow.

  • Cane ratoon and inter-row weed suppression
  • Cereal post-emergence broadleaf and grass control
  • Spot spraying of mapped hotspots only — large chemical saving
  • Rangeland invasives (Prosopis, Datura, Parthenium)
04 · Nutrition

Foliar fertiliser & biostimulants

Fast, repeatable foliar programmes at growth-stage precision — the passes ground rigs skip because entry damage is not worth it.

  • Micronutrient correction on diagnosed deficiency
  • Foliar top-ups at booting, flowering and grain fill
  • Seaweed, humic and amino biostimulant programmes
  • Short repeat cycles with no cumulative field damage
05 · Harvest aid

Desiccation & harvest preparation

Even desiccation for uniform moisture at harvest — critical for combine efficiency and grain quality contracts.

  • Wheat, barley, canola and pulse desiccation
  • Pre-harvest weed burn-down for cleaner combining
  • Applied close to harvest with no wheel-track losses
  • Pre-harvest interval compliance documented on the job sheet
06 & 07 · Spreading

Granular spreading & aerial seeding

Our heavy aircraft carry a granular spreader that lays product at variable rate over ground a tractor cannot cross — top-dressing, amendments, seed and cover crops. Hopper capacity and flow rates are in the fleet brief.

Top-dressing

CAN, urea and blends applied at variable rate over standing cereals and cane, including waterlogged and steep blocks.

Soil amendment

Gypsum, lime pellets and micro-granular amendments spread on prescription zones from your soil-sample maps.

Seeding

Pasture, fodder, cover crop, rice and legume broadcast — including inter-seeding into standing stubble and paddy water.

Rehabilitation

Reseeding of eroded gullies, dam embankments, riparian strips and post-fire rangeland where machinery cannot work.

Baiting

Granular bait and pellet application for rodent, snail and quelea pressure on cereals and rice schemes.

Forestry & plantation

Fertiliser and seed over young eucalyptus, pine and macadamia stands, plus targeted plantation pest control.

08, 09 & 10 · Data services

Mapping, scouting & prescriptions

Spraying blind is expensive. Fly the field first and you often find that a quarter of the block carries most of the problem.

Boundary & acreage audit

Centimetre-accurate boundary survey with orthomosaic and per-block acreage. Used to settle lease areas, outgrower payments, insurance claims and input budgets.

Deliverables: orthomosaic, boundary files, acreage report.

Multispectral crop health

Vegetation-index maps that expose stress, gaps, waterlogging, nutrient deficiency and pest hotspots well before they are visible from the road.

Deliverables: index maps, hotspot polygons, scouting waypoints.

Variable-rate prescriptions

We convert scout maps into flight prescriptions so dosage is modulated per zone — less chemical for equal or better control.

Deliverables: prescription map, applied-rate log, before/after comparison.

Irrigation & drainage survey

Thermal and visual survey of pivots, canals, bunds and drains to find leaks, blockages, dry corners and ponding before they cost you a crop.

Stand count & gap analysis

Emergence counts, gap mapping and replant recommendations for cane, maize and horticulture on a per-row basis.

Yield estimation support

Pre-harvest biomass indexing to sharpen tonnage forecasts for mill delivery, storage planning and forward contracts.

11–14 · Specialist operations

Where nobody else will fly

Outbreak & locust response

Rapid-mobilisation crews for fall armyworm surges, quelea flocks, locust bands and migratory pest events, coordinated with county and national plant-protection authorities. Standby retainers available for high-risk districts.

Larviciding & vector control

Mosquito and tsetse larviciding over dams, irrigation canals, rice paddies and swamp margins — protecting estate townships and lodges without putting ground crews in open water.

Rice paddy & wetland work

Full spray and spread capability over flooded paddies in the main irrigation schemes of both countries. No bunds broken, no delay waiting for drawdown.

Tea, coffee & orchard blocks

Precision work on slopes and tight blocks: tea foliar and mite control, coffee disease programmes, macadamia and avocado canopy sprays where tractor access is impossible or destructive.

15 & 16 · Commercial models

Contracts, wet-lease & compliance packs

Seasonal contract programme

Commit acreage for the season and receive priority scheduling, guaranteed response windows during peak pressure, and a rate insulated from fuel movements.

  • Acreage bands with improving rates
  • Rapid outbreak response commitment
  • Consolidated monthly invoicing

Band structure and rates: in the rate card.

Wet-lease & crew supply

We station a complete unit — aircraft, licensed pilot, ground techs, power and batching rig, with spares — on your estate for a block of days or weeks. You direct the work programme.

  • Daily and weekly structures
  • Your chemical, our airworthiness
  • Built for very large estates

Day rates: in the rate card.

Compliance, training & audits

Documentation that survives an auditor: spray records, chemical registration references, re-entry and pre-harvest logs, drift-management statements and operator competency files.

  • Certification-ready records
  • Estate operator awareness training
  • Advisory for in-house fleets
Service selection guide — what to ask for, when
SituationAsk forTypical response
Rust or armyworm outbreak spreading fastEmergency sprayingPriority mobilisation
Cane approaching harvest windowRipener applicationScheduled to the mill plan
Field waterlogged, tractor cannot enterAerial spray or spreadNext available window
Not sure where the problem isCrop-health scouting + prescriptionReport, then targeted application
Disputed lease or outgrower acreageAcreage auditSurvey and acreage report
Estate wants continuous capacityWet-lease unitDeployed per contract
Sent on request

Service Specification Sheet

The public page tells you what we do. The specification sheet tells you exactly how — and it goes to growers, not to the open web.

  • Application envelopes — volumes, droplet spectra, flight heights, swath widths per crop
  • Dosage guidance — how we handle common products in wheat, cane, maize, rice and horticulture
  • Verified work rates — acres per day by field type, not brochure figures
  • Deliverable samples — a real telemetry coverage report and index map
  • Rate card — per-acre pricing and season contract bands

Sent to growers, estate managers, mills, outgrower boards and agrodealers. We ask for farm name and acreage so what we send is priced and scoped for your operation — usually back the same working day.

Tell us the crop and the problem

We will come back with the service, the aircraft, the dosage approach and the price — scoped to your block.

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