Ryan Schrader
Appearances
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
As we look back, you know, we were just coming off of a pretty good, a dry year, three dry years, and then we went into the power farming show and there was a lot of interest, you know, right after first year, but never got really a good chance to utilize drones earlier in the season like we did this year, like Sue just said. You know, we were getting calls every day and
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
we didn't even know if we could get it done, weren't even really ready to go. And that was kind of the scenario, like you said, we were waiting for to actually show what these drones can actually do in different applications on fungicide.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
And, and, you know, as we talked to people here in the last couple of days, it's been, you know, commodity prices are suppressed a little bit compared to what they have been the last three or four years. And a lot of guys now are looking at these drones going, man, I could spend 30, 40,000 instead of going down and spending $300,000. So there's still a pretty good interest and appetite for,
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
for what a drone can do. So Rachel, what do you want to know about drones?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
So when we started, I had just seeded 130 acres of hay and I still have it. So we do that four times a year. And then, you know, it's evolved into not only myself, but I've got brothers and brother-in-laws that are now starting to integrate that into their operation. So it's fun to sit and watch and see how... Certain people will sit back and say, oh, it's a drone.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I don't know if it's really going to be feasible to fully embracing it and using it on a large majority of their acres, if not all of them. So it's been neat and fun.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
No tire tracks, no wheel marks. I can do it. Mine happen to be in a bee area, so I can't spray them until after six o'clock at night or before eight in the morning. So You know, the ability to get a guy with a ground rig or an airplane or a helicopter, you know, is virtually impossible when you want to do it. So that's where it's really been good for me. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
You know, that's a good question, and it gets asked often, but do I think there will be one on every farm? I think every farm is going to have an opportunity or have access to one in one way, shape, or form.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
I think it can help out a lot of different operations, and I think it's a tool that they, whether they don't use it fully, it's just a tool, and it's at a point or a price point to where it makes sense to have it just in case you need it. Yeah.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Well, that's another often asked question. And talking to the guys, you know, I've got a chance to talk to a lot of the distributors here this week already. And, you know, that's something that's not really...
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
kind of hush hush and no one really wants to you know they're chinese drones and are they going to be banned and are they not going to be banned and and uh so and there's there's different models out in asia and they got to run them for a year over there before they'll release them here so no one really knows for sure but there are bigger ones being made there are bigger ones coming out this fall it's just going to be nice for us to get our hands on them and and put them through the rigors of running
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
like we run drones here in Western Iowa. So will technology improve? Yes. They've closed a wide gap in like three or four years. So it'll be interesting to see how big they get, how fast, and what comes.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Revolutionizing Ag Equipment: Behind the Scenes with Strobel, Terraplex, and Brandt
Okay, my name is Ryan Schrader, and I'm one of the founding partners of TerraFlex. And yeah, Danny is the other one, and he couldn't make it here today. He's out in the field. So I guess I'm lucky, maybe. Of course you are. Absolutely.