Max Armstrong talks about the use of drones to spray crops from the air. The company Hylio has developed systems that can be used in conventional crops to put multiple airships over a crop to take on targeted spraying. The Texas company uses drones that carry different payload sizes, up to 5.2 gallons, to spray fields.

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