From the Farm: Will 2015 be the year of the farming drone?

From the Farm: Will 2015 be the year of the farming drone?
By Fiona Rotherham July 1 (BusinessDesk) - Drones will be “as big for agriculture as the mobile phone”, said 14-year-old Mark Gardyne, who along with his father, Neil, has been at the forefront of developing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for kiwi farms. The pair made international headlines in 2013 when they started flying drones over the family’s 466 hectare farm at Otama, near Gore, to check on lambing.  It took only 20 minutes flight time for the drone compared to two hours for a person on a quad bike opening and closing 120 farm...