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Field Benefits

When it comes to protecting yield, decisions are made in the dirt.

Beck's Hybrids 2025 Practical Farm Research (PFR) trials pitted drones against ground rigs and aerial platforms on real Midwest farms, providing hard data to help you get the most out of every acre.

  • Drone spraying often delivers higher return on investment
    than traditional ground rigs, with better net returns per acre
    in a 3-year study.

  • Drones avoid crop trampling and soil compaction that heavy ground rigs cause, preserving stand quality and soil structure.

  • Drone sprayers ensured thorough crop coverage and efficacy,
    lowering carrier volumes while matching traditional aerial
    platforms in fungicide and insecticide trials.

Beck's Hybrids PFR Test Plot Soybeans
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PFR Results

Drone vs. Ground Rig (Corn)

Beck's Hybrids PFR 2025 Graph 1 - Ground v Drone (Corn)

$6.40

$14.66

Drone vs. Ground Rig (Soybean)

Beck's Hybrids PFR 2025 Graph 2 - Ground v Drone (Soybean)

$12.26

-$1.88

Drone vs. Ground Rig vs. Helicopter (Corn)

Beck's Hybrids PFR 2025 Graph 3 - Ground v Helicopter v Drone (Corn)

$8.58

$14.10

$16.53

Beck's Hybrids PFR 2025 Comparison Fungicide vs. Control

Beck's Hybrids. (2025). Practical Farm Research 2025. p.43, 71, 252

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