Custom Application

Application that reaches what a rig cannot.

Herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, fertilizer, and cover crop, flown within 50 miles of Kansas City, with as many crews as your acreage needs.

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What we do

Here is what we do.

Spray, spread, scan, and map. Book one of them or book all four.

Spraying

Herbicide, fungicide, and pesticide at your rate, with droplet size set for the job.

Spreading and cover crop

Dry product and seed from the air, including cover crop into standing corn.

Multispectral survey

We scan your fields so a problem shows up while you still have time to treat it.

Prescription mapping

A variable rate map built off the scan, yours to fly with us or run yourself.

Why fly it

The numbers don't lie.

Independent testing shows what changes when the sprayer leaves the ground. Every number below comes from a university or an on-farm study, and every one is linked so you can read it yourself.

Standing crop with no wheel tracks through it

Crop loss

A ground rig runs over the crop it came to protect.

Precision Planting measured it in 2024. A ground rig costs about 6 percent of the crop per acre.

Six percent applied to yields around here, at $4 corn. Missouri averaged 183 bushels in 2024 and Kansas 129.
Your corn	Lost per acre	At $4 corn
125 bu/ac	7.5 bu/ac	$30/ac
150 bu/ac	9.0 bu/ac	$36/ac
175 bu/ac	10.5 bu/ac	$42/ac
200 bu/ac	12.0 bu/ac	$48/ac
225 bu/ac	13.5 bu/ac	$54/ac

Only 9% of a corn field goes a whole season without a wheel track in it
1.3% to 2.5% of a bean field on every pass, worse with a narrow boom
Beans run over at R3 or R5 do not come back
A drone leaves no track, on any pass, in any year

StudiesPrecision Planting, PTI Farm 2024 field traffic study, Pontiac, Illinois University of Wisconsin, wheel track trials USDA NASS, 2024 Missouri corn yield USDA NASS, 2024 Kansas corn yield

Soil and erosion

The tracks are gone by fall. The compaction is there for a decade.

Drive a field wet and the crop on that ground comes in about 15 percent short the first year. Ten years later it is still 3 percent short, and freeze-thaw does not undo it.

Penn State put the yield loss on compacted ground at 15 percent the first year and 3 percent ten years on. The decade total is our own arithmetic between those two points, held to the low side at about three quarters of one year's crop. Corn at $4.
Your corn	Lost over 10 years	At $4 corn
150 bu/ac	112 bu/ac	$448/ac
175 bu/ac	131 bu/ac	$524/ac
200 bu/ac	150 bu/ac	$600/ac

Subsoil compaction does not freeze-thaw out, on any soil type
Water soaking in drops from 1.06 in/hr to 0.25, so the rest runs off down the tracks
A drone puts no weight on your ground at all

StudiesPenn State Extension, Effects of Soil Compaction

Drone against aircraft

Eight trials against a plane or a helicopter.

Same product, same rate, same timing, same gallons an acre, with only the aircraft changing: the drone finished ahead in six of the eight trials and behind in two.

Corn, 2024 and 2025, aircraft and drone on the same carrier rate. Per trial results, including the two the drone lost, are in the studies below.
Drone against	Drone gain	At $4 corn
A plane, 5 trials	+3.4 bu/ac	+$14/ac
A helicopter, 3 trials	+3.9 bu/ac	+$16/ac
All 8 trials	+3.6 bu/ac	+$14/ac

Disease at R6 the same or lower than the plane, with more spray above the ear leaf
Terraces, point rows, tree lines, and powerline ground flown at rate, not skipped or doubled

StudiesUniversity of Missouri, drone vs airplane fungicide trials 2024 Beck's PFR 2025, corn ground vs plane vs drone Beck's PFR 2025, corn ground vs helicopter vs drone Beck's PFR 2024, corn ground vs plane vs drone Beck's PFR 2024, corn ground vs helicopter vs drone Beck's PFR 2024, corn helicopter vs drone

Scale

Sized to your field, not to our trailer.

Fifty acres behind the house or several thousand across the county, with more trailers and more crews on the big jobs rather than a later date.

Fifty acre plots are a normal job, not a favor
Big acreage gets more trailers and more crews, not a later date
One trailer covers plots on both sides of a road without moving
Four seasons of doing this as the main business, not a sideline

Precision Ag

Scan the field, build the prescription, fly the prescription.

One flat rate spends the same money on the acre that needed it and the acre that did not.

The scan

The camera sees it before you do.

A multispectral camera reads near infrared and red edge, so stress shows up well before the crop looks bad from the pickup.

Near infrared and red edge, not just a nicer looking aerial photo
Stress shows up while you still have time to do something about it
Flown low and under the clouds, so a gray week does not cost you the pass
Fly it again later and you can see whether a problem is spreading

The map

Zones you can act on, and a rate for each one.

The imagery becomes management zones and a variable rate prescription, delivered as a shapefile your equipment can read.

Zones drawn from your imagery, not off a soil type map
Variable rate prescriptions for fertilizer, seed, and chemical
Standard shapefile that your existing equipment can read
The map is yours whether or not we fly it

The flight

The rate changes while it flies.

The prescription loads into the spray drones and the rate changes zone to zone as they fly, with a coverage map back afterwards.

A scanning drone carries a camera and a spray drone carries a tank, so these are different machines
Rate changes across the field as it flies instead of one flat rate
Coverage map for every field, every time, as standard
Several crews and several aircraft on one field when the acreage needs it

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How a job runs

From the first call to the coverage map.

Map
We scan the field and build the prescription, or we work from boundaries you already have.
Plan
Two weeks out is ideal, with the mix and the field locations. Shorter than that, call anyway.
Fly
We bring the trailers, generators, batteries, and as many crews as the acreage needs.
Report
You get coverage maps for every field we flew, not somebody telling you it went on.

The operation

Numbers you can hold us to.

We fly several sizes and generations of aircraft, so what is worth knowing is how much we have flown and how much we can put up at once.

Acres sprayedacross four seasons: 60,000+
Flown in a daymore crews and trailers as the acreage grows: 1,200+ ac
Of Kansas Cityask if you are further: 50 mi
Flying operationswe don't stop when the sun goes down: 24 hr

Standard terms

How we work

Who supplies the chemical or seed?

You do, normally. If it is easier for us to source it, we buy it and pass it through with no markup.

How much notice do you need?

Two weeks is ideal for a season plan with the mix and the field locations. Call anyway if it is shorter, because running several crews means there is usually something we can move.

Is there a minimum?

Fifty acres per plot, and a plot is whatever we can cover from one trailer setup, so two thirty acre pieces either side of a road count as one sixty.

How is acreage counted?

Across the season rather than per visit, so the rate reflects everything you have us fly rather than any one job.

How do I know it went on properly?

Coverage maps for every field as standard, with a multispectral scan alongside if you want to see the result too.

What does it cost?

Per acre on a sliding scale set by your season total and whether you bundle mapping. Send the acreage and crop below for a written rate.

Get a rate

Tell us the acres and the crop.

Rates are per acre on a sliding scale, so the number depends on your season total.

We reply within one business day.
We confirm acreage, timing, and field access.
You get a written rate before anything is scheduled.

Running your own aircraft instead?

We sell the parts, build the trailers and sleds, train the operators, and make the software that runs the business.

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