New millions will allow Guardian Agriculture to expand production to meet demand for its autonomous electric crop dusting drones.
Each SC1 is 15 feet wide, weighs 600 pounds when fully loaded and is powered by a 100-pound battery pack. It carries 20 gallons of pesticide, which can cover 10 to 20 acres depending on the application rate and SC1’s speed, according to Bercu.“So at the lower rates, two to three gallons per acre, you're getting something like 45 acres done in an hour, and at the high end of volume, 20 gallons per acre.
“Our competition is really everything—the whole gamut from existing small, largely Chinese automated drones, manned aviation, but most of the acres around the world are done with these extremely large heavy ground-based machines that really wreak havoc on the environment,” Bercu said. "Aerial crop protection systems have operated the same way for decades," Wilbur-Ellis vice president of supplier relations Willie Negroni said in a statement."With the recent approval from the FAA, Guardian Agriculture is uniquely positioned to change the face of farming for the better. For the first time, we now have a reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable solution in the form of the Guardian SC1.
Bercu spent years working in his family's Miami-based aviation business, which exposed him to the dangers of crop dusting to those who applied the chemicals.
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