On-demand drone fungicide and pest control for blueberry, orchard, vineyard, and specialty vegetable farms — deployed in 30 minutes when your tractor is still days away from the field.
Boom rigs and aerial applicators were built for row crops on flat dry ground. Specialty crops in the Northeast — blueberries, apples, peaches, grapes, vegetables — break every assumption. Here's where the system breaks down, and what changes when you use a precision drone instead.
Every conventional spray pass compacts a layer of subsoil under your highest-yielding rows. Over a season, this hardpan becomes thick enough to physically block root penetration, water infiltration, and oxygen exchange.
Research from Penn State, Cornell, and Rutgers extension consistently shows 3–7% annual yield reduction from soil compaction in specialty crop fields — and the effect compounds. A drone weighs 47 pounds and never touches the ground. Across 540 spray passes per season on a 90-acre farm, that is 540 instances of root zone protection your soil never had before.
The most critical fungicide application of the season is the one immediately after rain. It's also the one your conventional equipment physically cannot make.
Soils stay saturated for 4–7 days after a meaningful rain event in the Northeast. During those days, botrytis, mummy berry, and rust spores are germinating, multiplying, and spreading through your canopy at exponential rates. By the time you can drive a boom sprayer into the field, you're not protecting healthy crop — you're treating an already-established infection.
Aerial application from a crop duster sprays from 100 feet up. By the time the droplets reach your canopy, gravity has done all the work — and gravity only goes one direction.
CanopyPass operates 10 feet above the canopy. Rotor downwash at 2,000–3,500 RPM forces fungicide actively into the canopy structure, coating leaf undersides where botrytis, mummy berry, and rust spores actually live and reproduce. Coverage is measurable: independent canopy sampling shows 90–95% coverage on lower leaf surfaces, versus 25–35% from conventional aerial application.
The first conversation costs you nothing. The first pass costs you nothing. You decide if you want a season agreement only after you've seen what the service actually delivers on your specific fields.
We come out and GPS-map every field block, document drainage and obstacles, identify airspace constraints, and build a custom spray calendar for your specific crop and disease pressure profile. No charge. No commitment. You keep the report regardless of whether you hire us.
We file FAA airspace authorizations, source approved chemistry, and notify you 24 hours before each scheduled flight. You can defer any pass at any time. Same-day emergency passes after rain are coordinated by phone — we're field-ready in 30 minutes.
After every pass you receive a digital coverage report with GPS flight tracks, application volumes, weather conditions, and operator notes. Full audit trail. Full IPM compliance documentation. Same-day pricing — no surprises, no upcharges.
We're concentrating our first-season operations in counties with the highest specialty crop density and the most acute conventional spray timing problems. If your county isn't listed, reach out — we may still be able to help.
We're building our 2027 founding client roster now. Founding clients receive a per-acre rate $3–5 below our standard launch pricing — locked for the full 2027 season — plus priority scheduling and a dedicated operator. No deposit. Signed agreement only. Spots are limited per county.
No charge. No commitment. We'll GPS-map every field block, document constraints, and leave you with a custom spray calendar — whether or not you decide to hire us.