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?
- 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
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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 T50 , on paper, has the technology in the aircraft and RC , to be able to fly a range of 15 kms or more, due to its internationally revered Ocusync transmission system. The caveat is, here in Australia , it needs to comply to the CE compliance standard, as such it is capped at 2km. Similarly the US has the FCC standard. However, this doesn’t actually change anything because DJIs system (Ocusync) is far ahead of any other, more importantly; when you're operating a spray drone you don’t really want to be more than about 1 km from it anyway, for 2 reasons:
- You want to minimise the time the done is flying but not spraying/spreading. The trip out (ferrying time) to the mission start point from the home (Refill) point is called ‘connection routing’ in the RC menu. The longer it is, the more battery you are using up before the drone even starts spraying.
- The T50, fully opened out, is roughly 3 x 3m in size (280L × 308W×82H cm) with the arms and propellers unfolded, and weighs 103 kg with a full load of granular onboard (hopper full). Most operators don’t feel comfortable piloting it from far away and it should always be within line of sight anyway.
The max speed is 36 kph (10m/sec). This limit is important when spraying because at more than this speed, the aircraft loses its ability to keep the droplets contained within the vortex bubble; video example – the Drones For Hire team spraying on rice in VIC. This is important for getting the droplets down into the crop/pasture correctly. This is one of the absolute key advantages of a DJI T50 spray drone above a boom sprayer. Remember you're not just getting a flying boom, you're getting a carefully designed spraying system with propellers and spraying system designed and positioned for optimum spraying results.
The T50 spreader can take 50 kg of granular (seeds, fert, baits etc), and the liquid tank can hold 40L of spray liquid.
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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