Fungicide, foliar feed, cover-crop seed and fertilizer by drone across Barrie and Simcoe County: soft ground and standing crop are no obstacle.
New to drone spraying? Read how it works.
Travel is included within 40 road km and $3.00 per km past that, there and back. Further out? Ask: the radius is a guide, not a hard stop.
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Aerial spraying and dry spreading for farms around Barrie, priced to the job and applied to the product label. Draw your fields and see an estimate before you talk to anyone.
$20 per acre per application · $400 minimum job
We spread untreated seed and granular fertilizer only: no pesticides of any kind, and no pesticide-treated seed. Lime and other products applied by the tonne aren't a fit for a drone.
Estimate my spreadingPriced per job from your fields, crop and label rate
The product's label must allow aerial application. Send us the product name or its PCP Act registration number and we'll check the label before we book.
Estimate my sprayingFree. Sign in with Google or an emailed link, no password.
Outline your fields, choose the crop and the season, and read the report in minutes. We email you a copy of each report when it finishes.
Check my fieldsThe quote tool uses exactly these numbers, so the estimate on your own map matches what you read here. All prices are in Canadian dollars, and HST of 13% is added at the end.
Spraying is priced from your fields themselves: acres and field shape, the water volume your product label asks for, how far we travel, with a minimum job charge for small jobs.
Application only, before HST. Bigger jobs cost less per acre: about $12.78/ac at 300 acres. Product is not included.
It only matters on small jobs: below about 20 acres, you pay the minimum.
The rate above uses 5 US gal/ac, a common aerial volume for corn fungicide. A label that allows less water means fewer refills and a lower price; one that asks for more costs more.
Distance from Barrie and the shape of each field are priced into the figure for your own map, not added afterwards.
Per application. Covers the flying and the application. Seed and fertilizer aren't included.
It only matters on small jobs: below about 20 acres, you pay the minimum.
On treated acres, which is acres times the number of applications.
Charged there and back, so $3.00 for each km past 40. Distance is estimated from Barrie, ON to the centre of your fields (straight line × 1.3), so the final charge may differ.
On application cost alone a ground sprayer is often cheaper; the drone wins where tracks, timing or access cost you yield. If a drone isn't the right tool for your job, we'll say so.
Some jobs suit drones better than others. These are the ones we'd point you to, and the catch that comes with each.
Seed goes on in late summer, weeks before a drill could follow the combine. Drone interseeding trials in Ontario, including OSCIA's Living Lab project, have shown establishment that varies with rainfall, crop and seeding date.
The catch: broadcast seed sits on the surface, so rain within a week, heavy residue, slugs and herbicide carryover decide the result. Results so far are mixed, and we don't promise a stand.
OMAFA's cover-crop guidance lists oats and radish as a common post-wheat mix, seeded in August. Seeded too early, radish can flower, and oats need time to grow before frost.
The catch: broadcast is less dependable than drilling and needs rain soon after.
In late winter or early spring, while the ground still freezes at night and thaws by day (often March to early April), clover can be broadcast onto winter wheat or thin hay and pasture. Freezing and thawing work the seed into the soil.
The catch: it works best on thin stands with some bare soil showing, and generally suits clovers better than alfalfa or grasses. The window moves with the weather.
In a wet spring, some Ontario growers have used drones to get granular nitrogen onto winter wheat when ground spreaders couldn't run.
The catch: payloads are small, so full-rate bulk fertilizer takes many flights. Fertilizer on saturated or ponded ground raises runoff and loss risk, so we'll tell you when it's better to wait, and any setbacks that apply near wells and watercourses still apply.
Wet corners, point rows, field edges and odd shapes are workable, with no ground rig crossing soft soil.
The catch: wind moves seed and granules, so we plan no-spread zones near homes, wells, watercourses and neighbouring crops. We assess very steep slopes case by case.
Ontario extension guidance generally puts the best fungicide timing for corn at about tasseling to silking (VT to R1), when one is warranted. By then the crop is tall for ordinary ground sprayers.
The catch: scout first. The label must allow aerial application, and many fungicide labels set a minimum aerial volume of roughly 15 to 20 litres per acre.
For Fusarium head blight in winter wheat, Ontario guidance generally puts the best timing at about early flowering, when anthers are visible. Soybean white mould programs generally start around R1 to R2, sometimes with a second pass about two weeks later.
The catch: the windows are narrow, labels govern timing and volume, and not every product's label allows aerial use.
Potato late-blight programs and Holland Marsh onion and carrot fungicide programs run repeatedly through summer, and wet weather is when ground rigs struggle most.
The catch: several late-blight and downy mildew products don't have aerial directions on their labels, so we check each one before booking.
Search your address, trace each field on satellite imagery, and we work out the acres.
Pick the crop and service. You get an itemized estimate and an illustrative flight path drawn over your fields. Actual flight lines and no-spread zones are set when we confirm the job.
Press send and your fields, estimate and contact details come straight to us. You get a copy by email, and you can save your fields to a free account to come back later.
We confirm what's going on the field, check access and obstacles, agree a date that suits the weather, fly the job and provide an application record afterward.
First-pass guarantee: we fly the first ten acres, you check the coverage paper, and we continue or you pay nothing. Want to see it first? See upcoming field days.
Wind moves seed and granules, and no method guarantees zero drift. So we plan to limit it before we fly.
We won't apply a product whose label doesn't allow aerial application. Send us the product name or PCP Act registration number before you buy, and we'll check the label first. If a day or a job isn't suitable, we'll say so and rebook rather than fly anyway.
From Barrie by road. Travel is included within 40 road km; past that it is $3.00 per km there and back, estimated to the centre of your fields.
Drones suit small and irregular fields, so there's no minimum field size. Very small jobs still cost more per acre, because travel, setup and refilling take about the same time whatever the acreage, so a minimum job charge applies. Tell us about all your fields and we'll quote them together.
Cover-crop and forage seed and granular fertilizer, within the aircraft's payload and rate limits. No pesticides of any kind: no herbicide, insecticide, slug bait or fertilizer-pesticide blends, and no pesticide-treated seed. Lime and other products applied by the tonne are far beyond a drone's payload, and ground equipment suits them better. Tell us the seed or fertilizer and your target rate and we'll confirm it suits our equipment.
For pesticides, using a product against its label directions is an offence under the federal Pest Control Products Act. The label has to allow aerial application, and we follow its aerial directions, including any minimum spray volume per acre. If a label says not to apply by air, we can't apply it. Send us the product name or PCP Act registration number before you buy and we'll check the label first.
No method can guarantee zero drift, so we plan to limit it. We map no-spray zones around homes, wells, watercourses and neighbouring crops, follow the label's droplet-size, volume and buffer-zone directions, fly low and steady, and check wind before and during the job. Tell us about anything sensitive nearby, such as organic fields, beehives or gardens.
We only spray inside the product label and the federal and Ontario rules. Wind limits and buffer zones are set on each label, so we follow the label for your product. In very calm, still air we check for signs of a temperature inversion, which can carry fine droplets a long way, and hold off if conditions point to one.
We hold off and work with you to rebook at the next suitable window. Spreading and spraying are often tied to crop stage and the calendar, so we'll talk through how much a delay matters for your fields.
Yes. After each job we provide an application record: the field location and acres treated, the crop, the date and time, the product with its PCP Act registration number, the rate, and the conditions. Keep your copy with your farm records.
Outline your fields and we read Sentinel-2 satellite passes over them for the season you choose: greenness (NDVI) for each pass, a health grade against comparable fields of the same crop, and the parts of each field that fall behind. It's free. You sign in with Google or an emailed link (no password), and we email you a copy of each report when it finishes.
A few minutes, with no signup and no obligation to book.
Prefer to talk? Call 705-555-0100 or email quotes@dronespraying.example.