While AgEagle has been rapidly growing and expanding to new industries, its agricultural roots are still top-of-mind as new solutions enter the fold.
Steve Turetsky, Director of Agriculture Solutions at AgEagle, sees many different avenues for drone use and unique applications and cites the following as some of the current popular use cases for drones within ag:
- Counting plants in a field
- Scouting for leaks in irrigation
- Identifying large areas of disease
To maintain AgEagle’s trajectory, the company has made two recent acquisitions, which bring industry-leading technological capabilities to farmers interested in drone solutions. In January, AgEagle acquired MicaSense, a company at the forefront of multispectral sensor development for vegetative mapping and analysis. And then in April, AgEagle acquired Measure, an award-winning company specializing in drone operations software.
Turetsky says it’s the ability of the company to offer end-to-end solutions with drones, sensors and software that has helped fuel its growth.
“Being a one-stop-shop for an agronomist or a farmer means they don’t have to go to many different sources for a holistic solution. And they don’t have to worry about hardware and software capability or optimization,” he says.
Collaboration is also key for the company’s culture. This includes the integration of the new teams and technologies via each of these acquisitions as well as with AgEagle’s customers.
“We are nimble and agile, and while over the past 24 months we’ve become a bigger company and became publicly traded, many are surprised to know we want to be in the trenches with them,” he says.
“We love researching and trying new things,” he says. “This is a constantly evolving industry. I understand why some farmers could be jaded by technology because they get sold so many things, but we aren’t trying to replace their proven practices. We’re only trying to support, monitor and supercharge their best practices.”
