Ag Drone Spraying in Logan County, KY for Wheat, Soybeans and Corn

Ag drone spraying prices in Logan County

Ag drone spraying in Logan County, KY is billed per acre, per pass, application only. Kentucky drone rates for soybeans, corn, wheat and alfalfa run about $9–16 per acre, with $12 typical in 2026, and one state directory lists $14–19. Our rates:

Service	Typical rate	Notes
Wheat head scab fungicide	from $11/acre	Start of flowering
Soybean fungicide or insecticide	from $11/acre	Full-season and double-crop
Corn fungicide	from $11/acre	Tassel to early grain fill
Rescue herbicide	from $12/acre	Where labeled for aerial use
Cover crop seeding	from $13/acre	Seed billed separately

Each visit has a $200 minimum. Product is billed separately. Quotes reflect acres per trip, sinkholes and streams nearby, and the spray volume on the label.

Fourth in Kentucky for crops

Logan County had 1,017 farms on 266,727 acres in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, averaging 262 acres, with sales up 48% to $225.1 million, ninth in Kentucky. Crops brought in 70%.

Crop or livestock	2022
Soybeans	74,969 acres
Corn	61,553 acres
Wheat	56,278 acres
Hay and forage	19,833 acres
Layers	286,139
Cattle	31,027 head

The county ranked fourth in Kentucky for crops and for grains and oilseeds, third for milk, fourth for hogs and eighth for tobacco. Net cash farm income rose 87% to $71.8 million, and about 4,400 acres are irrigated. About 36% of farms run 50–179 acres, while 52 top 1,000. Ag drone spraying in Logan County runs through wheat in spring, then full-season and double-crop soybeans and corn in summer.

Double-crop wheat and soybeans

UK agricultural economists note that southwest Kentucky has traditionally double-cropped heavily, with average ground yielding about 72 bushels of wheat and 42 bushels of double-crop soybeans, against 50 for full-season beans. Double-crop beans planted into wheat stubble reach R3 later than full-season fields, which stretches the fungicide and insect season, and a drone works both without driving through the canopy.

Wheat head scab timing

UK plant pathologists put the best scab fungicide timing at Feekes 10.5.1, the start of flowering; some products can't go on after Feekes 10.5.4, and the main scab products carry 30-day pre-harvest intervals. Strobilurin fungicides can raise vomitoxin levels in grain. With 56,000 acres of wheat flowering in the same few days, a drone adds capacity when ground rigs are booked.

Frogeye leaf spot resistance

QoI-resistant frogeye leaf spot was first reported in Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee in 2010 and has since been found in 240 counties across 14 states. Soybean fungicide passes use products with other modes of action where resistance is present.

Sinkhole plain and escarpment

The Kentucky Geological Survey describes the south of the county as a sinkhole plain at about 600–650 feet, separated by the 150-foot Dripping Springs Escarpment from higher, more rugged ground to the north. The 70.9-mile Mud River drains the northwest toward the Green River at Rochester, the 38.6-mile Gasper rises in the northeast and runs to the Barren, and the Red River flows into Todd County. Lake Malone, 788 acres on a Mud River tributary since 1961, sits on the county line. Operators map sinkholes, springs and streams as no-spray zones.

Dark tobacco and the Black Patch

Logan County has long grown dark fired tobacco, about 1.15 million pounds in 2017, and tobacco sales of $7.1 million ranked eighth in Kentucky in 2022. On January 3, 1908, Night Riders of the Black Patch Tobacco Wars took over Russellville and dynamited two tobacco factories. Tobacco fields near grain get mapped buffers.

Amish farms and South Union

Amish settlements near Lewisburg (founded 1998) and Auburn (2005) farm small fields beside large grain operations. The South Union Shaker village farmed 6,000 acres from 1807 to 1922 and sold garden seed; nearly 500 acres of its farmland are still kept. Gardens, produce and horse pastures are mapped as no-spray zones. Near Adairville, the Red River Meeting House marks what is described as the first American camp meeting, held in June 1800.

Field conditions

Field condition	Ground sprayer	Spray drone
Wheat at flowering	Wheel tracks	No crop contact
Fields with sinkholes	Hard to work around	Mapped edges
Double-crop beans after rain	Ruts	No soil contact
Fields beside Amish gardens	Drift concerns	Mapped buffers

A Logan County spray season

Window	Typical drone work
Late April to May	Wheat head scab at flowering
June	Rescue herbicide in corn and soybeans
July to August	Corn fungicide, full-season soybean R3
August to September	Double-crop soybean passes
Fall	Cover crops after harvest

Licensing and airspace

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) requires Category 11, Aerial, paired with Core and a site category, with three exams at $10 each, a $25 license, renewal every three years with 12 continuing education hours, and reciprocity with neighboring states including Tennessee. The business holds an FAA Part 137 certificate with Part 107 pilots. Russellville-Logan County Airport sits four miles southeast of town with a 4,500-foot runway, so crews check airspace for fields nearby. Russellville also hosts the annual Kentucky/Tennessee Grain Conference, which drew about 160 growers in 2023.