Had forgotten that this was a holiday weekend. Should probably pick up a frozen pizza. Since I was going out anyway, I threw (make that carefully placed) the camera on the passenger seat to take pics of new barn quilts on the way. The road into town cuts through a flat field. Hit the brakes as a very big drone passed me in the field to the right. It flew up to the end of the soybean row, didn't enter a part of the field planted in corn, and then returned back in the direction it had come. This was no hobby drone - this was an ag drone fitted with a liquid reservoir. We had a significant rain earlier in the week and the weather has been mild since. Doubt it was watering. Might be spraying insecticide or herbicide. I didn't see anything coming out of it but it could be programmed to only spray under certain conditions. Could also be spraying nutrients - again only if it saw sparsely covered areas. Could also just be doing aerial reconnaissance for the farmer to check the crop status. Didn't see where the drone's handlers were located so I finally drove on. Got pics of four barn quilts, picked up a pizza, filled the car w/ gas, and headed back home. The drone was still working but in another soybean field. I don't like drones. They are noisy, intrusive, and frighten wildlife. This kind though I might be OK with. It's too expensive to fly anywhere frivolously - it'll only be low over open fields. It's built to perform very specialized functions - the operator will be experienced (and hopefully mature).
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