Our fully self-contained rig and drone launch.
DroneDraft is a CAA-certified drone spray contractor working across Canterbury, Marlborough through South Canterbury. Crop spraying, weed control, topdressing and seeding, in the places a tractor can't reach and a helicopter isn't worth calling.
The hills are turning yellow. Best time of year to find out what's actually up there.
Why spring matters →Irrigators in the way? Broadacre season, and a drone doesn't need a tramline.
Why summer matters →Ground softening up? The steep and the soggy are drone country.
Why autumn matters →
Our fully self-contained rig and drone launch.
Most farms have a few bits that are more trouble than the rest of the place put together. These are the ones we get called about.
Faces, gullies, riverbanks and scrub. Would you carry a spray pack up there? Neither would we.
Soft ground where wheels leave ruts, compaction and a mess that outlasts the job.
Irrigators, tramlines, shelter belts, tall crops, and paddocks the wrong shape for a boom.
Roofs and glasshouses with moss, mould and lichen, three storeys up and no safe way onto them.
A drone doesn't need a way in. It just needs to know where to go.
On a drone job the aircraft comes back every few minutes wanting more chemical. Done the usual way that means an operator decanting concentrate over and over, all day, with gloves that come off far sooner than they should.
So we built a machine to do it instead. It draws concentrate straight from the drum through a sealed line, measures every dose, and records what went into your tank. It won a national safety award, and it runs on every job we fly.
See our certifications · The mixing system is now sold separately, as Mixamatix ↗
If it needs to be applied from above, or looked at from above, it is probably on this list. If it isn't, ask anyway.
Worth knowing before you spend on chemical: we can often map it first, then treat only what actually needs treating.
XAG P100 Pro & P150 Max — purpose-built agricultural spray and spread aircraft for broad acre and precision work.
DJI Mavic series — compact and versatile, for surveying, mapping, photography and videography.
All authorised under operating certificate UAOC104836, valid throughout New Zealand and its territorial waters. Chief Pilot: Anthony Williams (CAA No. 104860).
No wheel tracks, no compaction, nothing driven through a standing crop. The paddock looks the same afterwards as it did before.
Each load is mixed on demand and measured as it goes in, so you aren't paying for chemical that ends up as leftover nobody can use.
Mapped and flown to the boundary you agree. Spray goes on the gorse, not the shelter belt, the waterway or the neighbour.
Every mix is logged automatically with recipe, quantity, date and time. If you ever need to show what went on your land, it exists.
That's the normal starting point, and it's an easy question to settle. Tell us what you've got and where it is, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help or whether something else would suit you better.
When we're working in your area we can often take a look first, map what's there, and give you an idea of what treatment would involve.
Tell us about the jobYou'll get a reply from Ant, who does the flying.
