Drone Spraying for Corn in California

Corn applications center on foliar nutrition through the vegetative and early-reproductive stages, fungicides for common rust and northern corn leaf blight around tassel, and insecticide for armyworm and corn earworm as the canopy closes. The canopy grows tall fast, so a ground rig loses access just when the key passes are due.

Drone application flies over the tall canopy when a high-clearance sprayer can't get through, applying an even volume per acre across the field — and it flies when the ground is too wet after irrigation.

Corn canopies close and grow tall, so a ground rig can't get through after V8 without damaging the crop; a drone flies the tassel and post-tassel passes without touching the field.

Irrigated corn ground is wet through the season; a drone flies when a rig would rut the field, protecting the root zone.

Virelo flies corn fields across the San Joaquin Valley, timing foliar nutrition and fungicide passes to the vegetative and tassel stages. Our pilots coordinate with your PCA to time nitrogen, zinc, and boron passes to the V-stage and tassel, and rust and blight fungicides to the right window, with GPS-guided flights over the tall canopy.

After the corn canopy closes, a ground rig cannot get through without damaging the crop; a drone flies the tassel and post-tassel passes without touching the field. On irrigated corn ground, a drone also flies when the soil is too wet for a rig, protecting the root zone, and the even, line-by-line flight gives uniform coverage across the whole field.