Green-on-Brown Spot Spraying

Turn your sprayer into a spot sprayer.

Map weeds with a drone. Spot spray with the sprayer you already own. Plug the USB into your John Deere, Raven, or Trimble monitor and spray at full speed. Know exactly how much chemical to mix before you start.

No boom sensors No subscriptions Works with your sprayer
Agcopter drone with weed-detection sensor flying beside a John Deere sprayer in a stubble field
800ac/hr
Mapped per hour

The Right Tool for the Right Field

Spot spraying isn’t the answer to every field.

Sometimes a blanket spray is the right decision. Sometimes spot spraying saves thousands of dollars.

How much sense does it make to have expensive cameras riding on your booms, rattling over rough ground for thousands of hours when you aren't even using them? With Agcopter, the cameras stay on the drone. Fly the field. Measure the weed pressure. Decide whether spot spraying makes sense. Then load the prescription into the sprayer you already own.

You know which fields are worth spot spraying — before the sprayer leaves the yard.

One System. One Price.

Own the system. No subscriptions.

Pay once and own the complete system — drone, sensor, laptop, and software. No per-acre fees, no annual licenses, and no expensive sensor repairs.

Complete Turnkey System
$89,000
One-time investment. 0% subscription fees.

Hardware Included

  • Heavy-lift drone (flight ready)
  • Agcopter Duo weed sensor (800 ac/hr)
  • High-speed processing laptop
  • Flight batteries & fast charger

Service & Software

  • Perpetual software license
  • On-site training at your farm
  • Workflow setup with your sprayer
  • Ongoing technical support
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Fly · Spray · Save

The $89k system that turns your existing sprayer into a precision machine.

Drone Mapping vs. Boom-Mounted Detection

Two ways to build a spot sprayer.

Both systems can spot spray green weeds on brown ground. The difference isn't what they spray — it's how they get there.

Agcopter Boom-Mounted Detection
Where the intelligence livesOn the droneOn the sprayer
When the decision is madeBefore sprayingWhile spraying
Detection viewStable top-down view above the crop residueGround-level view from the spray boom
During blanket sprayingThe drone stays in the shedCameras ride every acre
Where your investment spends its lifeFlying only when mappingRiding every acre you spray
Works across your fleetOne system, multiple sprayersDedicated to one machine
Hardware investmentOne drone systemRetrofit every sprayer
Changing sprayersKeep the same systemTransfer or repurchase hardware
Field logisticsKnow water and chemical before leaving the yardWater truck waits until the field tells you
CompatibilityJohn Deere, Raven, TrimbleManufacturer-specific

Detection technology

Stereo left and right camera views from the Agcopter sensor, with individual weeds circled by the detection software on bare stubble
The sensor’s own view — individual weeds picked out on bare stubble, left and right cameras.
AgcopterWeed-ItJohn Deere
Primary sensingRGB + FluorescenceFluorescenceRGB vision

Agcopter combines RGB imaging with fluorescence sensing rather than relying on a single sensing method.

Calculate Your Savings

What would this save on YOUR farm?

Weeds often cover less than 20% of a fallow field — so you only spray the fraction that matters. Punch in your numbers and see the math.

Total acres you manage for weeds.
How many times you cover the ground each season.
Your chemical cost per covered acre.
Portion of the field that actually has weeds.
Estimated Annual Savings
$80,000
vs. broadcast spraying the whole field
Broadcast
$100,000
Agcopter
$20,000
The $89,000 system pays for itself in Year 1.
Questions? Give us a call or send us an email.
We'd enjoy talking farming, sprayers, and whether drone weed mapping fits your operation.
Or just reach out directly — no form required.

From the Field

Real farms. Real savings.

Hear it straight from growers running Agcopter — click any card to watch.

The Workflow

From "flight" to "flash drive" — the same day.

01 / FLY

Autonomous mission planning

Draw the field perimeter in the flight software, one time. It builds the flight path automatically, with distances and times.

02 / MAP

Cover 2,000+ acres a day

Press Start and the drone flies the route at ~800 acres an hour, 225ft up, at 30mph, handling winds over 20mph. Swap batteries about every 40 minutes.

03 / SPRAY

Local processing, no cloud

Process everything on the included laptop that same day. Target weeds by size, adjust the spray buffer, and calculate exactly how much chemical you'll use.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Weed-It and WeedSeeker are "real-time" systems that mount sensors on the spray boom. While effective, they are expensive (approx. $160,000 for a 120' boom) and vulnerable to damage from dust, mud, and impact. Agcopter maps the field first, so your sensors stay safe in the air — and the system costs only $89,000.

Yes. See & Spray often requires buying a new machine or an expensive retrofit with recurring per-acre subscription fees. Agcopter is a green-on-brown specialist that works with your existing sprayer (Deere, Raven, or Trimble) with zero subscription fees.

No. If you have section control you're good to go. Unlike systems that require PWM or individual nozzle control, Agcopter generates maps that work perfectly with standard Section Control booms. We optimize the map to your sections to save 70%+ on chemical.

Sometimes a blanket spray is the right decision. Sometimes spot spraying saves thousands of dollars. Blanket spraying can waste 80% or more of your chemical on bare dirt. That's expensive, and it builds chemical residue in your soil. Spot spraying applies herbicide only to the weed, saving significant input costs per season while maintaining higher yields. But, if weed percentage is high, spot spraying is often not the most effective choice.

Yes. Repeated blanket use of cheap chemistry creates resistance. Because spot spraying lowers your total volume — often by ~80% — you can afford higher-quality, more potent tank mixes to ensure a complete kill on resistant weeds without breaking the bank.

Get Started

See what Agcopter would save on your operation.

Interested in reducing input costs and chemical use? Reach out about precision weed mapping and spot spraying — we'll walk your numbers with you.