Drones have become a widely used technology system in the agricultural industry over the past few years, with applications including irrigation, pollination, security, spray application and health monitoring.

For Westlock, with some of the highest crop yields in Alberta and over 3.5 million acres of land used for productive farming, applying innovative technologies like drones might not be at the top of farmers' minds.

According to Roosevelt Quiah from Pixal 3D, about $20 billion goes into agriculture annually. “That’s your fertilizer, your pesticides, your herbicides and all of that stuff. So they typically just tend to apply it broadly over their fields. So the opportunity here is for precision agriculture.”

Farmers typically use ‘traditional scouting’ methods to look for areas that n

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