October 27, 2015
2015 Logan County Farm Outlook Magazine
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.COM Page 43
Talking about the
amazing photos and
videos that the Phantom
3 can capture with
its 4K camera, Coers
added, “You can see
where you need to place
the nitrogen or what
products best place
the nitrogen. What ‘s
better for your field, for
your farming practice?
Our Phantom 3 Drone
costs $2400 and so if
you spend $2400 you
are putting it up and
within seconds making
a decision that could
save you several other
thousands of dollars.
You are basically saving
money by making those
decisions that you
cannot see at ground
level.” Coers believes
the decision-making
process is the best
thing in the future for
farmers concerning this
technology.
Local insurance agent Perry Grieme was one of
the first to have a drone in Logan County and he
also sees the benefits of using a drone as a free
value-added service in his business. “I’ve always
flown remote-controlled airplanes, so a drone was
a natural for me because
I enjoy it. With the crop
insurance, if there is a
hailstorm or a windstorm
and the corn is tall and
you cannot walk through
it because it is so thick,
we can fly that drone
over the field and find out
where the damage is so
then the adjuster can go
to that spot to make his
counts to see how big a
claim there is. It’s going
to save a lot of time and
it’s going to do a better
job of adjusting. This
way we can fly over the
whole field. We can
take the drone and find
out exactly where the
damage is and make a
video of it.”
Grieme also pointed out
that drones could help
livestock farmers in
addition to grain farmers.
“Mainly, the more
sophisticated drones will
have infrared technology
where a farmer could fly over a field and it will
show where there is insect pressure or a fertilizer
deficiency because it will show the different
colors. For people that have cattle, you know
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