Key points:He hopes the method will become more widely adoptedThe crop, in full bloom at Cambooya, was planted in September as a result of 12 different experiments."To our knowledge, it's the first sunflower crop in the world entirely planted by a big agricultural drone that we use commercially," he said."The only thing it doesn't do is harvest it."But he said friends and colleagues from the farming community thought sunflowers couldn't be done.
"I've also got some ideas on heights, spin speed, patterning and just to tidy up what we've learnt across the 12 experiments here.""Anytime you don’t have to drive over the surface, you’re doing the land a favour: not making compaction, not disturbing the soil. Certainly drones are a touch-free way to apply things to agricultural surfaces," he said.
"Typically, with private properties where sunflowers are planted the farmers don’t want the public walking through and treading over everything because of biosecurity reasons. We’ve sort of put that aside here,' she said.Dozens of visitors have already come to see the spectacle.
Would love to see that crop of barely they planted 🙄