| Arable
drone4rent...
Aerial footage for various industries.
t Drone4Rent, our
team have years of
experience in
flying high quality
drones and UAVs
(unmanned aerial
vehicles). As a CAA (Civil Aviation
Authority) approved company, we
hold PfCO (Permission for
Commercial Operation) to ensure
your footage is shot to the highest
standards. Making use of
advanced autonomous control
software, we can guarantee
excellent and precise footage,
even for repetitive flights and we
can utilise our zoom enabled
camera for a variety of uses, such
as industrial inspections.
A
Our experienced crew of drone
operators have the skill and
experience needed to ensure
you receive exactly the footage
you need
Drone4Rent provide aerial
footage for a number of different
industries, with a capability for
offering both single and dual
operators depending on your
requirements, as well as a thermal
imaging option to help you
achieve your goal. Companies for
a number of different reasons, rely
on our drone footage:
• Aerial 4K filming
• Data for industrial surveys
• Agricultural mapping
• Site inspections
• 3D modelling
• Property marketing
• Small events
• 360 panoramic footage
• Motorsports
When it comes to farming
drones can provide the following
services with more being
constantly developed:
• Health assessment
• Crop spraying
• Irrigation
• Planting
• Crop monitoring
• Field and soil analysis
10 | Farming Monthly | October 2017
Lowest wheat bulb fly
risk since monitoring
began
Cereal crops are at the
lowest overall risk from
wheat bulb fly (WBF)
since monitoring began,
according to findings
from the annual AHDB
autumn survey of this
pest.
onducted by
ADAS, the
autumn survey
involves taking
soil samples in
September from
30 fields prone to WBF attack
(split equally across sites in
England, located in the East and
the North) and counting the
number of WBF eggs.
Historically, the threshold of
250 eggs/m2 has been used to
provide a measure of overall
risk. For the first time since
monitoring began in 1984, none
of the 30 soil samples was found
to exceed this threshold.
Despite the low risk, some
sites sampled had egg levels
above the seed treatment
threshold relevant to later-drilled
crops, with the risk higher at
sites located in the north of
England.
Good progress was made
with the winter wheat harvest in
2017, despite unsettled weather,
and 90 per cent of the crop had
been harvested by the first week
of September, which is ahead of
the five-year average.
Report author, Dr Steve Ellis,
ADAS, said: “It’s possible the
good progress with harvest
limited the opportunity for the
fungi that adult wheat bulb fly
like to consume to develop in
cereal ears.
“When food sources are
restricted, we know the females
produce fewer eggs and this
could have contributed to the
low-risk year for this pest.”
Treatment thresholds
Due to recent withdrawals,
C
chemical options for control of
WBF are limited to seed
treatments. The thresholds for
treatment are as follows:
> Early-sown winter wheat
crops (before November) are
unlikely to benefit from seed
treatment, as they have more
time to tiller and are better able
to withstand WBF attack
> For late-sown winter wheat
crops (November to December),
seed treatments should be
considered where WBF
populations exceed 100
eggs/m2 (moderate risk)
> For late-winter/spring-sown
crops (January to March), seed
treatments should be
considered irrespective of the
WBF population size
Good progress was made with
the winter wheat harvest in
2017
The threshold of 100
eggs/m2 is, therefore, only
relevant to late-sown crops. For
the sites located in the North,
four were above this level. Only
one site, however, was above
this level in the East.
The WBF survey provides an
indication of the overall risk
level. As in-field risk depends on
numerous factors, growers are
advised to read the AHDB Wheat
Bulb Fly publication to calculate
the need to treat crops. The
publication can be found,
alongside the full survey results,
at cereals.ahdb.org.uk/wbf
www.farmingmonthly.co.uk