Iowa Moves to Shield Livestock Farms from Drone Surveillance

[drakkor]

I don't know if this is really legal or not, since the FAA is the entity controlling airspace. Also, making such a law proves in my opinion that farmer mistreat their livestock, and don't want people to see it. Full article here: trengthening Privacy and Security for Farmers

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

An equally valid assumption might be that farmers don't want dipsticks with drones harrasing their live stock, especially around calving/lambing time.

 

[mavic3usa]

An equally valid assumption might be that farmers don't want dipsticks with drones harrasing their live stock, especially around calving/lambing time.

Then they would make a law that says you cannot harass livestock using a drone, a car, a boat, a whistle, a skateboard, or anything else. And therefore, let the drone fly freely overhead and capture whatever photos and videos are visible from above as long as it doesn't harass. But we already know this isn't the case, this legislation doesn't surprise me; nothing new: go to jail, confiscate the drone forever....whatever. Been going on for decades in the US and I'm surprised it hasn't happened as much elsewhere in the world but the laws may be different elsewhere I guess.

This is what your government seeks to protect with such drone laws (it's not the best footage but it's on youtube so it's fairly ok but please watch only if you wish; not me, not my videos, no further comments from me):

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[Cafguy]

Tell me the advantages of checking livestock with a drone Besides "They are way over there" ( Beyond VLOS by the way.) . I would think a horse would be about 1000 percent better.

 

[mavic3usa]

Tell me the advantages of checking livestock with a drone Besides "They are way over there" ( Beyond VLOS by the way.) . I would think a horse would be about 1000 percent better.

Good uses for drones on the range; old video so I assume it has much improved:

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[CadrePilot]

Tell me the advantages of checking livestock with a drone Besides "They are way over there" ( Beyond VLOS by the way.) . I would think a horse would be about 1000 percent better.

It's not about farmers checking their stock. It's about activists surveilling the livestock.

 

[MS Coast]

Preface: I'm a no-apologies omnivore and I eat meat.

This is another so-called Ag-Gag law. They're enacted to help hide the less pleasant aspects of raising and killing animals from public view. People have been arrested and prosecuted for such things as shooting video of slaughterhouse operations.

Ag-gag - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ag-Gag Laws, and the Fight Over Them, Explained

So called "ag-gag" laws criminalize elements of undercover investigations like taking photographs and recording video in factory farms.

sentientmedia.org

Charged With the Crime of Filming a Slaughterhouse

So-called "Ag-Gag" laws reveal the lengths to which the agriculture industry will go to keep their business practices secret.

www.thenation.com

 

[RockyMtns]

I fly a 2 Pro, and also grew up on a ranch in NE New Mexico. The advantage of a drone in ranch life is that cattle can be counted from a distance very easily. It's common for livestock to get through a fence and into another pasture. Also, it's useful to check for injuries (such as a limp) from a closer distance. Something like a snakebite is much more difficult to detect from a drone.
All this has nothing to do with cattle in feedlots, where they're confined to large pens.

 

[dave canada]

Tell me the advantages of checking livestock with a drone Besides "They are way over there" ( Beyond VLOS by the way.) . I would think a horse would be about 1000 percent better.

holes in the fence things like locating cattle that have gone onto the other side of the fence in the southwest things like this are very time cunsuming on 100 and 200 section ranches if you have a pilot that can navigate low flights like anything else the view is much better in the air , ridind fence on a large ranch can take weeks with two or three drones running missions 200 miles a day can save lots of time true working and hanndling cattle is only horseback work but if you know where they are before hand well it,s got it,s application,s for sure

 

[dave canada]

I fly a 2 Pro, and also grew up on a ranch in NE New Mexico. The advantage of a drone in ranch life is that cattle can be counted from a distance very easily. It's common for livestock to get through a fence and into another pasture. Also, it's useful to check for injuries (such as a limp) from a closer distance. Something like a snakebite is much more difficult to detect from a drone.
All this has nothing to do with cattle in feedlots, where they're confined to large pens.

yes sir glad to see some one else finding there way around these drones they can save alot of time for sure dave canada double h

 

[Cafguy]

The advantage of a drone in ranch life is that cattle can be counted from a distance very easily.

Thank you I can see the value in that!
I Fly sometimes For security for extra money. I mostly fly around an oilfield tank farm spotting for people scrapping from the yard. with the drone I can look down thru the rows of tanks Seeing them from on top is a great advantage.