Drone crop spraying in San Jacinto.
Strata UAV flies aerial application and crop mapping across San Jacinto — the hay-and-row-crop floor of the San Jacinto Valley, in Riverside County. From our Carlsbad base we spray alfalfa & hay, silage & small grains, citrus, and row vegetables on the groves and fields around Hemet, Winchester, and Nuevo, with even-coverage or variable-rate application flown under FAA Part 137 and a California Qualified Applicator License.
San Jacinto Valley hay ground runs on a cutting clock — when the PCA writes a rec between cuttings, the window is days, not weeks. The T100 covers valley-floor blocks without putting a wheel on soft, freshly watered ground, and we fly mornings before the afternoon wind works up the valley. You keep your PCA and supply the product; we bring the aircraft and the licensed pilot.
- alfalfa & hay
- silage & small grains
- citrus
- row vegetables
What San Jacinto growers ask us
Do wheel tracks in hay ground really matter?
Ask anyone who's baled around ruts. A ground rig compacts wet ground and knocks down standing crop in every wheel row; the T100 never touches the field, so the stand stays clean and the next cutting comes off whole.When do you fly in the San Jacinto Valley?
Mornings, mostly — the valley's afternoon breeze is reliable enough to plan around. We fly to the label's wind limits and call the day honestly; if weather cuts a job short, we finish the block on the next calm window.Do you treat the citrus and groves around the valley edges too?
Yes. The hillside citrus toward Hemet and the foothills flies the same way our San Diego County grove work does — terrain-following passes up the rows, variable-rate when your PCA's map calls for it.
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