$10,000 or $15,000 purchases a nice industrial drone system capable of scanning for analysis hundreds of acres per hour, on demand and under the direct control of the farmer.
That’s probably less than 5% for what a airplane or helicopter would cost."
That's fine, use them anywhere you want, except after June 12, 2018, they are fair game in the Republic of Maine.
Government needs to have the support, and permission, of the people it seeks to govern.
If the proposed government is out of step with the people, as your arguments suggest, it will never have their support, and certainly not their permission. It will never come to fruition as proposed.
I predict farmers, and others, will be legally using drones well beyond 2018.