Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

The R550 Sprayhawk can carry up to 110 gal. of payload and cover more than 200 acres per hour. Credit: Rotor Technologies Brazilian civil aviation regulator ANAC has approved the use of uncrewed ...

PAGE, N.D. -- It's early afternoon on a picture-postcard day in late May, a rarity in a wet, drizzly spring. Tim "Toby" McPherson is anxious to climb into his spray plane and take advantage of the ...

in a Grand Forks County agricultural aircraft crash, his family continues to advocate for change in the industry. "It's so hard to not have Tylor here," Brianne Osowski, Johnson's sister, told the ...

POLICE SAY THAT THIS IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION--AS NO ARREST HAVE BEEN MADE.## ELECTRIC AUTONOMOUS DRONES WILL SOON BE USED TO SPRAY CROPS GROWN ON THE CENTRAL COAST. A MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY CALLED ...

HOCKLEY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - Aerial application is an integral part of agriculture across the South Plains. Many farmers make a living flying over fields. “I love my job, it’s a lot of fun. Anybody ...

Wreckage of a spray plane is seen in a cornfield southeast of Ardoch, North Dakota, early Tuesday evening, Sept. 12, 2023. GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — The fatal agricultural aircraft crash in northern ...

Summer skies fill with planes and helicopters in rural Illinois every summer as corn and soybean fields need crop protection. However, the risk to aerial applicators was magnified last month with four ...

LAWTON -- It might be more difficult to make a living than it was in crop dusting's glory days, but pilots say there's still a place in agriculture for aerial chemical application. The industry has ...

MT PLEASANT, Mich. — Michigan State Police (MSP) troopers in Mt. Pleasant responded to a plane crash Thursday morning. Police say the plane was a crop duster that crashed in a hay field. The pilot was ...

GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — The fatal agricultural aircraft crash in northern Grand Forks County on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 12, is the ninth crop-dusting fatality in the United States this year. The ...

Members of an environmental group protest in front of the National Congress in Brasilia against the new pesticide law that eases the trade and use of these products ...