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).
- 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?
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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
The DJI T50 is a modular, uncomplicated and well-engineered spraying machine, with a simple maintenance requirement. Especially when considered relative to a manned helicopter or SP sprayer. For this reason, we just don’t see spray drones simply wear out. In 2025, we still see old T10s, T20s and T30s in service. You will replace rotors and washers/shims, maybe a centrifugal or impeller pump motor , the very occasional ESC, or a motor, but that’s usually it. If you have a crash, the system is designed with sacrificial parts. Drones For Hire has its own graphical parts catalogue that is thorough and clear.
You are much more likely to stop using your spray drone because you want to upgrade to the next model, not because your current model is worn out / has been retired. DJI brings out new models roughly every 2 years. We see some customers holding out for the next model which is plausible, depending on how long the wait is, what season this time frame covers and the subsequent variables that can impact your spraying needs. The cost of not being able to spray e.g. when it’s wet or because your local contactor is booked, or your boom sprayer is down for repairs can become far more costly than the drone purchase. Some customers even get a T50 just as a backup/ redundancy.
What’s the next one on the horizon? The DJI T100 is coming next! It will feature some more industry leading breakthrough technology as usual from DJI and will really push spray drones forward into broad acre areas of Australia, with a suspected productivity rate of 220+ ha per day per drone.
Important to note, the T100 is not just an upgraded T50, it is in a different product category. The T50 is a versatile all-rounder that is good on crops and good for spot spraying weeds on hills, aquatic weeds in waterways and even white washing greenhouse roofs. Relative to its predecessors (T40, T30) and the T100, the T50 can be considered a ‘medium’ sized aircraft that many customers can pick up on their own and move on and off a trailer or vehicle.
The T100 on the other hand is much bigger, less agile, requires 2 people to carry, and is therefore more designed as a high productivity crop sprayer.
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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