Texas Outlaws Low Drone Flights Over Big Farms

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2. Meaning you need much heavier and more expensive optics and thus a bigger, more expensive drone

to get a useful picture.

That's the difference between spending a few hundred bucks and closer to the price of a decent used car. It effectively prices most individuals and local activist groups out of investigating CAFOs even before you consider the very real possibility of losing one's equipment to gunfire (because Texas,) police confiscation, etc.