Exciting Rental Fleet Updates as at April 2025
- DFH is now offering a simple credit card hold option for the value of the items you rent as the security deposit (EFT upfront no longer required).
- Your rental becomes free of charge if you decide to purchase the same item brand new within 14 days of the rental period.
- Rental fleet significantly enlarged as at March 2025, adding several units including Matrice 4 E, Matrice 4 T, H30T, M350 RTK, RTK3, flood lighting systems, tethered power solutions, M3M etc.
- We maintain a large and well managed Aus wide fleet of drones for dry hire. One of the models you are looking for may not be far from your location – call 13000 029 829 and ask for Rachel to get a quick heads up on the nearest location and best hire price for the item you need.
Contact Rachel our hire fleet manager:
1300 029 829
0490233192
Your questions answered: What’s the current landscape in 2025 with the DJI T50 and other spray drones in Australia.
Compiled by Nick Smith with contributions from the Drones For Hire Ag. team and our customers (growers and graziers).
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Are spray drones worth it? Five things growers & graziers say they like most about the DJI T50
- How many hectares/aces can a DJI T50 spray drone cover per day? And how do you compare it with an SP sprayer?
- How much does the DJI T50 cost? And what do contract drone sprayers charge per hectare / acre?
- How many years does a DJI spray drone last for ? Should I wait for the next model?
- For the T50: What are the licensing requirements for operating a T50 spray drone in Australia
- What is the DJI T50s max flight range and speed ? And How much can the T50 lift / carry
- How to get the lowest cost DJI Agras T50 spray drone
- Ten reasons to consider Drones for Hire as your supplier & support partner
Have you ever been unable to get your trail rig over ground, because it's too wet, too rough or any other access issues? Ever wished your self propelled sprayer could push more product into the target, operate over soft/wet country, cause no compaction, need no diesel, require hardly any maintenance, and be more efficient with both chemical and water rates?
Spray drones allow spraying in any ground condition, if there is air above - it can spray it. The rotor wash on drones also provides a mixing effect, making your chemical more effective than traditional methods.
For graziers, ever wished you could spray your weeds more easily, accurately target only the weeds and get to the areas you could never do with a Quick Spray / spot spray unit (steep, rocky, gullies, etc)? The DJI T50 makes it easy to hit more of your weeds (e.g. blackberry, tussock, St. johns wart, lantana) and increase your grazable land.
See Farm Futures article: “Ag drone use soars as farmers see results” , May 6, 2025.
2-min video: see the high flow rate and penetration a DJI T50 can deliver (showing with T50 Atomized Sprinkler Package ($1090.0 fitted).
5 things our customers (growers and graziers) say they like most about the DJI T50
Availability: By having a T50 yourself, you can spray/spread anytime, day or night in a moment's notice. Taking advantage of seasonal conditions and reducing yield loss while you wait for a contractor.
Efficacy: The drones' propellers sit typically just 3-4m off the ground, pushing the droplets down and circulating them to get more liquid on-target. This increases active chemical contact to the target, allowing under leaf and stem contact.
No ground compaction or crop knock down ,meaning no yield loss & no machine wear from ground impacts.
Accuracy and precise spray control: Spray drones can get into areas you've never felt safe taking your tractor into: steep, gullies, fence lines etc. RTK operation allows for GPS positioning that is accurate to 10mm.
Chemical safety: spraying via drone allows you to stand back at a distance meaning reduced risk of chemical exposure.
Watch our 35-min full T50 demo video
35-min video: T50 Full Spraying Demo
2-min video: Customer scouting stock yards, feral pigs and even mustering.
T30 demo, T40 demo, and T50 demo
8-min video: summary of the T50s flight modes available on controller screen
2-min video: see the high flow rate and penetration a DJI T50 can deliver
Video the T50 holding its droplets in a controlled vortex bubble over a rice plantation
Go to all our YouTube videos (demos, how-to videos, Shorts)
Get fast local quotes for contractor spraying or mapping work here
View dry-hire drone rental fleet and prices
DFH Batch Master chemical mixing stations
DFH aluminium enclosures for spray drones (2-min video)
CASA article: Drones taking agriculture sky high
AAUS: the leading association for uncrewed systems (drones, ROVs, robots) in Aus.
DJI Agriculture main site
Blackberry control action groups: Weeds Australia, VIC , NSW
Cotton Australia main site
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