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ALEXANDRIA, VA – SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 –The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accepted the National Agricultural Aviation Association’s (NAAA) recommendations to improve the accuracy of the models used to estimate the amount of drift from aerial applications as part of the agency’s endangered species insecticide strategy. EPA has been using the...

A coalition of agricultural spray drone distributors is banding together to form a grassroots industry group. The move comes in response to proposed legislation aimed at banning drones manufactured by Chinese companies. The coalition consists of Agri Spray Drones, Bestway Ag, Drone Nerds, HSE-UAV, Pegasus Robotics, and Rantizo and intends...

Wisconsin’s agricultural pilots can finally take a breath as the busy application season comes to a close. Curtis Meister is among them. Curtis is the president of Reabe Spraying Service in Plover and the president of the Wisconsin Agricultural Aviation Association. He gives us a bird’s-eye view of what the...

WESTLOCK – Harvest is in full swing with combines going steady and Australian chopper pilot George Graham has touched down in Alberta to do crop dusting. Graham, is a helicopter pilot in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia, where he sprays crops nine months of the year. But since it’s winter...

DILWORTH, Minn. — If you love your job, why retire ? One day spent with crop duster pilot Gary Jerger of rural Clay County, you quickly find out there is a reason he's been flying the "600-horse beasts" for a half century. Jerger lives a pilot's dream; at his hangar...

The founder and CEO of Scott Aviation and later CO Fire Aviation, Kyle Scott, lost his life during an aerial application flight yesterday while flying his AT-602 in Colorado. Scott, who founded and operated Scott Aviation, which operates several ag aircraft, also began aerial firefighting operations with a new start-up...

Flying Farmer Aerial Application pilot Doug Pralle and the spray plane he had at the 2024 Farm Progress Show was often sought out for interviews by many media outlets covering the event. During the three-day show August 27, 28 and 29th near Boone, Iowa Pralle explained the features and uses...

An airborne war against avian-malaria-spreading mosquitoes is actively underway on Kaua‘i, and soon to start on Maui. In the 2013 film “Planes,” audiences of all ages became familiar with a crop duster named Dusty.  On Kaua‘i conservationists are flying a helicopter version of Dusty to spread a harmless bacterium in...

This week, the Agricultural Defense of São Paulo participated in the “Sustainability Forum”, held at the headquarters of the Agriculture and Livestock Federation of the State of São Paulo (Faesp). The seminar addressed issues related to aerial spraying of agricultural pesticides, and was attended by representatives of the Agricultural Defense...

HELM Agro US, Inc. has announced Reviton herbicide has received approval for aerial application according to the EPA. The Reviton label expansion will increase aerial spring burndown options and soybean plant back intervals which have been troublesome for many growers. “Unpredictable spring weather can often narrow the window for preplant burndown applications....