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Re:Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the ... by gumby on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:13PM (#40740347)
$20 is a lot (I assume that’s the customer price buying them in volume). You have to save a lot of water / increase yield enough to justify that. That suggests a BOM well under a buck, probably less than $0.50.

I spent some time in this sector (at one company irrigation of almonds and stone fruit, another in wine) and the margins are very tight. Fortunately the farmers have sharp pencils.

Re:Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the ... by gnuser on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:22PM (#40740434)
When you think about it, farming is the perfect physical application of scaling.