Drone snail baiting · Margaret River

5 kg/ha.
Every row.
Every time.

Snail bait is too expensive to dump in the first row. We spread it by drone at the exact rate you set — metered, GPS-guided, and even across every metre of the block.

Vineyards · orchards · paddocks. Calibrated rates from a licensed, insured operator.
Southwest Agri-Tech spreading drone in a vineyard, with cartoon snails surrendering around a pile of green bait pellets
Even coveragerow 1 to the back fence 5 kg/hametered, not guessed
The first-row problem

We've all seen
how it goes.

You buy the bait. You pay for the labour. And somehow half of it ends up in the first row — thick enough to crunch underfoot — while the back of the block gets next to nothing.

Hand spreading is only ever as even as the person holding the bag. Train a new backpacker each season, hand them an expensive product at 5 kg/ha, and "near enough" gets very expensive, very fast — in wasted bait and in snails that were never baited at all.

"Paid for a full rate. Got a full rate down one row, and snails everywhere else."
~50%
of the bait gone in the first couple of rows by hand
$$$
premium product, spread by guesswork
Gaps
whole rows left unbaited down the back
New hire
a different spreader, a different result, every season
Hand vs drone

Same 5 kg. Very different block.

Both spread the same bag of bait at the same rate. Flip between them and watch where it actually lands.

Evenness across block 34%
Block actually covered 43%
Same 5 kg/ha. Same bag of bait. A new backpacker, a heavy first row, and gaps down the back. Evenness depends entirely on who’s holding the bag.
ROW 1 ROW 8
Hand spread — half the bait in row 1
Why bait by drone

Precision you
can count on.

Every pass metered, guided and logged — so the bait you paid for ends up everywhere the snails are.

Calibrated to your rate

Set 5 kg/ha and that's what goes out — metered automatically, not eyeballed from a bucket.

Even across every row

GPS-guided parallel passes at a consistent spread width — the same coverage front to back.

Logged & mapped

You get a coverage map of the job, not a shrug — proof the whole block was done.

No labour lottery

No training a new spreader each season. Same precise result, job after job.

Reaches the tricky bits

Wet headlands, soft ground and steep blocks — covered from the air, with zero compaction.

Fast turnaround

Big areas baited quickly when timing matters most — straight after the break, before they breed.

5kg/ha
your exact rate, metered every pass
100%
block coverage, row 1 to the back
8ha/hr
covered when timing counts
0
wheel tracks, no compaction
Spreading drone flying down a vineyard row, with cartoon snails fleeing ahead of it
When to bait

Get on top of them early.

Snails move and feed after the autumn break and through the cool, damp months. Baiting early — while they're active and numbers are still manageable — knocks the population back before it takes off in spring.

After the break

First decent rains and heavy dews get them moving — the window to knock numbers down early.

Through winter

Cool, damp spells keep them moving — but they slow right down when it's dry. Bait to the weather, not the calendar.

Before bud movement

Clean them up ahead of spring so new growth and fruit aren't on the menu.

Book your baiting

Bait it once.
Bait it right.

Tell us your blocks and your rate — we'll get the bait exactly where it needs to be, and send you the map to prove it.

SEAN · 0415 477 534 sean@swagritech.com.au MARGARET RIVER · WA