Former Dairy Farmer Takes Business Skyward

Former Dairy Farmer Takes Business Skyward FARM BUSINESS IDEAS After realizing their adult children weren’t interested in continuing their dairy enterprise on their Southern Manitoba farm Milt and Tash Olfert sold their cows and quota After the sale lacking firm plans Olfert began looking for something to do eventually toying with the idea of agricultural drones His brother was the Alberta dealer for XAG drones and encouraged Olfert to take on the company’s Manitoba sector The result became Olfert’s Golden Plains Ag Drones the exclusive XAG Pro 100 drone dealer While Canada’s regulations don’t allow drone herbicide pesticide or insecticide spraying farmers can use them to seed crops photograph livestock analyze soil measure land and blow moisture from orchard fruit Olfert uses the Pro 100 to seed canola on his farm Other customers have seeded roadways and ditches after construction and spread seeds as cover crops in corn fields “Many in the farming community are still finding out what they can use them for and what works for them ” Olfert says “Most want to see how it works before jumping in and buying but we’ve made some sales and people are happy with them ” The Chinese drone manufacturer XAG will soon showcase a Pro 150 model with a small winch for lifting and transporting fruit baskets in orchards “I think this might be a great option for the cherry farming industry ” Olfert says “Testing has shown it works well in rice fields so it should transfer nicely to orchards ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Milt Olfert Golden Plains Ag Drones Stanley Manitoba Canada R6P 0B2 ph 204-325-3135; info@goldenplainsagdrones ca; www goldenplainsagdrones ca

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