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Broadacre farmers in Western Australia's grain belt are facing lengthy delays for crop-dusting services, sparking "desperation" amid concern that crops will suffer in a year with record production potential. Pilots say they are racing to clear up to four weeks of work spraying and fertilising paddocks, due to unprecedented demand...

  What started out as a small two-person experiment in 1921 in Ohio is now a multibillion-dollar industry with 1,200-horsepower, turbine-engine airplanes, treating more than 127 million acres of U.S. cropland each year. The agricultural aviation industry gathered at Virginia’s Leesburg Executive Airport on August 3 to mark a century...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of aerial application! Reed Keahey was practically born into the pilot seat. "We're like the doctors for the crops. We get a prescription from our entomologists and then we treat the crops for insecticide, fungicide, and also some glyphosate," Keahey explains. Reed's father, Drew, started...

While the majority of pilots in the ag industry have moved away from using a headset while flying; seeing the benefits of wearing a protective helmet and often spending thousands of dollars to purchase one, there is another area of safe operation that doesn't get the same consideration - wearing...

With residents voicing concerns regarding Tiny's handling of this summer's gypsy moth infestation, council requested that an expert be brought in to provide some insight as to what aerial spraying is, and what the township can do going forward. Paul Zimmer, president and operations manager of Zimmer Air Services Inc., declared to council...

KENANSVILLE — Aug. 3, 2021, will mark a special milestone as we reach 100 years of Agriculture Aviation and remember pioneers such as US Army pilot John Macready, who made the first aerial application during an experimental flight on a Curtiss JN-6 “Super Jenny,” in 1921. The development of the...

I was working out in my garden last summer when a bright yellow airplane started flying overhead. My subdivision, which used to be a strawberry patch, is surrounded by corn and soybean fields. I watched as the plane would sweep across the nearby field, precisely spraying the corn crop before turning...

Air Tractor joins the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from July 26 – Aug. 1 to mark the 100th anniversary of ag aviation at this year’s EAA AirVenture Air Show. “We are excited to return once again to Oshkosh with our friends from NAAA after so many...

by Juliana Ap. Torchetti Coppick Delivering an aircraft, whether new or used, is always a rewarding task. It’s like being the emissary of good news. That aircraft is part of someone’s projects, whether to compose an existing fleet or perhaps to be the aircraft that will initiate the projects of...

In the Southern Red River Valley, early morning near the summer solstice spells bright blue skies, wispy clouds and a prickly breeze. Fields of soybeans, corn and sugar beets carpet the landscape, while groves of trees pop up like islands in an emerald sea. Alfalfa and wheat are beginning to...