There's a lot of farmland in the Waikato that's hard on machinery and harder on the people running it — steep faces, boggy corners, narrow margins along waterways. Drones change that equation. We wanted to bring that to local farms, but we also wanted to do it right from day one — which means getting properly certified before we put a spray drone in the air, not after.
We're working through CAA Part 102 certification — an approved exposition, a Pilot Chemical Rating, and an agricultural rating, the same standards that govern every commercial spray drone operation in NZ.
While we get our own certificate over the line, we're working with a trusted, certified operator partner — so Waikato farms don't have to wait for jobs like winter fert and gorse control.
Our target is to have AgDronesNZ flying its own jobs under our own Part 102 certificate. Flight Lines, our newsletter, is where we'll share the milestones along the way.
We run an all-DJI fleet. Sticking with one ecosystem means our gear, flight data, and mapping all work together — and parts and support are straightforward to access here in NZ.
Our spraying and spreading work runs on DJI's Agras platform — agricultural drones built for precise, even application across crops and pasture.
For mapping and surveying, we use DJI's mapping-equipped platforms to capture accurate aerial imagery and data for your property.