Service
AcreWatch Scout
Scout every acre, not just the field edges.
AcreWatch Scout flies your fields on the schedule the crop sets, capturing multispectral and RGB imagery across every acre. Those flights become stand counts, weed and nitrogen maps, disease calls, and the load file your sprayer or planter runs on.
How many passes a season depends on the crop: four on pumpkins, six on sunflowers, eight on corn and soybeans, nine on cotton, two per cutting on hay. Each one is tied to a growth stage rather than a date on a calendar, so the flight lands in the window where the finding is still worth acting on.
Flying the same routes pass after pass is what makes the comparison worth anything. Early stress, drainage problems, and pest pressure show up against the last flight instead of against nothing, and that points your inputs and your scouting at the acres that pay for them.
The same flights carry the elevation work: contour and flow maps that show where water collects and where tile or a grade change would change the outcome, plus the acreage and boundary documentation a farm has to keep anyway.
What we do
- A scheduled pass at each growth stage, pre-plant to pre-harvest
- NDVI, NDRE and RGB orthomosaic mapping of entire fields
- Emergence and plant stand counts by zone
- Early detection of disease, pest, and nutrient stress
- Elevation, contour, and water-flow mapping for drainage and grading
- Acreage, boundary, and volume documentation
What it saves
Published figures from outside this site, for the acres this service covers.
Crop
Put the input where it pays
Product and application put a fungicide pass somewhere near $18 to $20 an acre by the time it is on the ground. A pass is $2.00 an acre. If the map says skip a quarter of the field, that one pass has paid for itself more than twice over, and you still have the record of why you skipped it.
Labor
The drive is the expensive part
USDA put the average gross wage across all hired farm workers at $19.52 an hour in April 2025, and $18.15 for livestock workers. Two hours a day driving out to look at fields or pastures is roughly $1,100 a month of somebody's time before the truck, and it is time spent on the search rather than on the problem.
Source: USDA NASS, Farm Labor
Published figures from the sources named, not our estimates of your operation. Your acres, your inputs and your labor decide what this is actually worth, which is what the site survey is for.
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Eyes in the sky. Decisions on the ground.
Put eyes in the sky over your operation.
Tell us about your acres, sites, or assets and we'll survey the site and map out a monitoring plan.