Professional Devon Drone Spraying Services

Devon's steep combes, red-soil hills and small, banked fields are some of the most difficult ground in the country for a self-propelled sprayer, and slopes that are marginal or unsafe for a tractor are routine for a drone. Flying above the crop removes the compaction and slippage risk on steep, wet red land entirely, and lets us treat awkward corners and steep valley sides that ground kit either skips or struggles across. For growers and livestock farmers from the Culm to the South Hams, difficult terrain stops dictating what gets sprayed and when.

Only around a tenth of Devon is arable - the county is roughly three-quarters grassland - and farms here average under 60 hectares, worked around steep-sided valleys and the highest hedgerow density of any English county. This is ground people have always farmed around: the hand-cut lynchet terraces on Devon's hillsides exist precisely because the slopes were too steep to cultivate conventionally. Flying above the crop sidesteps that terrain entirely, and gets onto wet, hilly fields that stay boggy later into spring and turn wet earlier in autumn than the chalk counties.