Introducing StrataUAV

California growers have too many jobs and not enough spray windows. StrataUAV exists because we believe the answer isn't more boots on the ground — it's a licensed operator, one modern aircraft, and a written quote back the same day you ask.

What we do

We fly the DJI Agras T50 — currently the heaviest, most capable agricultural drone on the market — for commercial aerial application of:

• Pesticides and fungicides
• Liquid fertilizer
• Granular fertilizer, seed, and cover crop
• Slug bait and broadcast treatments

One aircraft, four jobs. No tire tracks through your crop, no compacted rows, and no waiting for the custom applicator down the road to finish someone else's 400 acres before starting yours.

The credentials that matter

Aerial chemical application in California is tightly regulated — as it should be. Before we fly a single quart, we hold:

• FAA Part 107 — Remote Pilot Certificate, the baseline license for commercial drone operation
• FAA Part 137 — Agricultural Aircraft Operator Certificate, the certificate required to legally apply any chemical from an aircraft
• CA Qualified Applicator License (QAL) — issued by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, the commercial applicator license required to handle restricted materials in California

If you're used to working with custom applicators, you already know that license list is the short one. We also carry full liability insurance (certificate available on request) and pull a permit before every restricted material pass.

What's different about drone application

A ground rig is a sunk cost, a driver, and a schedule. A drone is a flight plan and a battery swap. For most California blocks — almonds, pistachios, wine grapes, walnuts, strawberries, and row crops — it means:

1. No compaction. The T50 is 32 kg empty and never touches the soil.
2. No crop damage. Spray trellised vineyards, waterlogged row crops, and hillside orchards no ground rig can reach.
3. RTK centimeter-level accuracy. Every flight is corner-locked to your block boundary. No drift into neighbors, no re-sprayed strips.
4. Dual-atomization coverage. Droplet size from 16–400 µm in one system — a fungicide fine mist or a herbicide coarse pass on the same airframe, same day.
5. Same-day paperwork. You get a GPS-logged coverage map and a copy of your Pesticide Use Report with every job. No more "I think we sprayed last Tuesday."

How to hire us

Send the field, the crop, and the timing. You'll get a written per-acre quote back the same day during spray season. Call, text, or email — we answer them all.

"Drones don't replace good agronomy. They just make the application part stop being the bottleneck."

Welcome to the field notes. We'll be posting what we're learning on California farms — fungicide timing, coverage strategies, regulatory updates, and how the T50 actually performs once it's in the block.