Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology Podcast, and I'm sitting down

with technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today, tomorrow,

and into the future. In this episode, I talk with Bill Edmondson about RDO UAV Solutions.

With that, let's dive into the show. Like I said, we are going to be talking about some UAV solutions that RDO equipment company has to offer. I'm really excited to

bring Bill Edmondson onto the show. Bill is our UAV product manager with RDO equipment. So,

Bill, to get started, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and who you are and

how you got to where you are today. Thanks for having me, Tony. It's a lot of fun to talk about

these things. I'm excited about them. So I met RDO when I was, had just returned from UAV related work for the Department of Defense for a few years.

And I'd gotten back and I decided, you know, hey, there's a way to make a living with this.

There's a market here.

There's an opportunity in commercial use of these technologies in the U.S.

So I started putting together a business and found out that I was

good at the sales part. I was good at the flying part, but it wasn't good at making drones.

So at about a 50% failure rate, I thought, you know what, I need to start looking around,

see who's selling these things pre-built and ready to go. I did my research and I found that RDO had a really good handle on where the

business was. You know, this was early mid-2000s. And so this was kind of early in the industry as

as far as survey drones go. I just really liked the products that RDO had to offer. And so we were talking about it and

had a good relationship and they asked me if I'd like to come on board. So I've been with the company

ever since. I started out as a product specialist, helping our customers understand the product,

help training those customers and also training our account managers on the products and the

solutions. I worked my way through the company and I'm happy to say I'm the UAV product manager

now. So basically running the UAV side of the business. Got a great team to work with and a great

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