Greyman OPS Get in touch
Greyman OPS

Blog

Home / Blog

Feral deer among trees at night near Goondiwindi, Queensland

30/10/2026 · Industry insight / feral deer

Feral deer: Australia’s next feral pig problem?

A national report card shows feral deer control failing almost everywhere except South Australia. What Greyman OPS is seeing in Queensland and NSW.

Read more

Aerial view of a New England property during harvest, seen from a helicopter on a feral pig program

08/10/2026 · Aerial culling / feral pigs

Feral pigs don’t respect fence lines, so neither should your control program

Feral pigs, goats and deer ignore fence lines. Join a Greyman OPS aerial program with your neighbours to cover more country and keep pigs from moving back.

Read more

Overhead thermal drone image of a feedlot pen with each animal marked for counting

22/09/2026 · Feedlots / thermal stocktake

Counting a feedlot without a single beast leaving its pen

How Greyman OPS counts feedlot cattle overnight with autonomous thermal drones: no mustering, no crew in the pens, and a count reconciled to your register.

Read more

Night-time thermal camera image of a group of feral pigs feeding

07/09/2026 · Feral pigs / thermal surveys

Endless lines of feral pigs: why timing and consistency matter

After big wet seasons, feral pig numbers boom. Why late winter to summer is the time for coordinated, yearly aerial control, guided by thermal drone surveys.

Read more

Topographic contour pattern

31/07/2026 · Biosecurity / H5N1

Is your site ready for H5 bird flu?

H5 bird flu has been detected in wild birds in Australia. How feedlots, feedmills and other at-risk sites can reduce bird numbers and prepare now.

Read more

Greyman OPS prototype operations centre with two DJI Dock 3 drone docks deployed in a paddock

20/07/2026 · DJI dealership / Dock 3

Two docks, continuous flights: the Greyman OPS Dock 3 Operations System

The Greyman OPS Dock 3 Operations System pairs two DJI Dock 3 units for continuous drone flights, with CCTV-triggered launches and redeployable hubs.

Read more

Helicopter being refuelled on a remote airstrip before an aerial feral animal control flight

24/02/2026 · Aerial culling / seasonal timing

The flood window: a rare, time-critical chance for feral animal control

Floodwaters push feral pigs, deer and goats onto high ground. Here is why aerial control in that short window can deliver months of impact in days.

Read more

DJI Agras drone flying over bushland to spread fire ant bait

30/09/2025 · Biosecurity / fire ants / Agras

Fighting fire ants from the air, where people and vehicles can’t go

Greyman OPS uses DJI Agras drones to spread fire ant baits precisely on steep, unsafe or inaccessible ground, and thermal drones to help find nests.

Read more

DJI Matrice 400 drone with a Zenmuse thermal payload set up on a vehicle before a survey flight

13/09/2025 · Thermal drone surveys / DJI

Nearly an hour in the air: thermal surveys with the Matrice 400

How Greyman OPS uses the DJI Matrice 400, Zenmuse H30T and FlightHub 2 to fly night-time thermal wildlife and livestock surveys across NSW and Queensland.

Read more

Greyman OPS team converting a DJI Agras T100 drone from spreading to spraying at a field demonstration

08/09/2025 · DJI dealership / Agras

On the road with the DJI Agras T100

Greyman OPS has been showing farmers how the DJI Agras T100 and T50 spread baits, seed and fertiliser and spray crops, including a quick spread-to-spray swap.

Read more

Copy of the 2025 Australian Mines and Services Handbook

01/04/2025 · Mining / feral animal control

Integrated pest animal management for mine sites

Feral pigs and dogs are an issue on almost every Queensland and NSW mine site. How Greyman OPS delivers safe, integrated pest animal management on mines.

Read more

Aerial view of pig nests and damage hidden in the middle of a large crop

29/03/2025 · Industry insight / feral pigs

What you can’t see from the edge of the paddock

Pig nests hidden in the middle of crops, boars as disease spreaders, and why feral pig control needs more support: insights from the 2025 national conference.

Read more

Greyman OPS Remote Operator’s Certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

13/03/2025 · Company news / ReOC & DJI

Company news: CASA ReOC issued and DJI Dock 3 training complete

Greyman OPS has been issued a Remote Operator’s Certificate (ReOC) by CASA and completed DJI Dock 3 Solutions training for Tier 1 Enterprise dealers.

Read more

Aerial view of red soil cropping country in Queensland during a feral pig program

20/01/2025 · Field jobs / aerial culling results

Program results: 1,025 pigs to start 2025

Recent Greyman OPS aerial feral animal program results, including 1,025 pigs in early 2025 and 327 pigs across about 75,000 acres in New England NSW.

Read more

Thermal drone image of rooftop solar panels

Greyman Ops using thermal drones to inspect solar panels

Using thermal drones to make asset and roof inspections faster and safer.

Read more

Thermal drone flying over farmland

Integrating hi-res thermal drones into aerial pest destruction programs

How thermal drone technology is reducing the cost of feral pig programs.

Read more

Common myna bird perched on a branch

Removing common (Indian) myna birds

The common myna is one of the world’s 100 most invasive species. Here is how we remove them humanely.

Read more

7 NEWS interview still

7 NEWS interview: aerial control of feral pigs

Adam Quinn spoke to 7 NEWS Wide Bay about aerial feral pig control in Queensland.

Read more