Drone Spraying for Tomatoes in California

Processing tomatoes grow a dense, low canopy fast. Timing centers on fungicides for early and late blight, insecticide for fruitworm and beet armyworm, and foliar nutrition through fruit set and bulking. The blight window is tight and a missed pass can collapse yield quickly.

Drone application flies a low, even pass over the closed canopy, applying a controlled volume per acre — and it flies when the ground is too wet for a rig after irrigation.

Tomato canopies close quickly, so coverage must reach into the canopy; a drone's down-airflow and tuned droplet size drive product into the foliage.

Tomato ground is irrigated and soft; a drone flies when a rig would rut the field, protecting the root zone.

Virelo flies processing tomato fields across the San Joaquin Valley, timing blight fungicides and insecticide passes to the exact disease and pest pressure. Our pilots coordinate with your PCA to time early and late blight treatments to the window and foliar nutrition to fruit set and bulking, and our GPS-guided flights apply a controlled volume per acre across the field.

On irrigated tomato ground, a drone flies when the soil is too soft for a rig, which is often right after irrigation when the blight window is closing fast. The down-airflow and tuned droplet size drive product into the dense, closed canopy rather than sitting on top, and the even, low pass covers the whole field with the same volume, protecting quality on a high-value crop.