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Growers have watched herbicide-resistant weeds crop up in corn, soybeans and sorghum fields and they are not alone. Dwight Scholl, manager at Tri Rotor Crop Services LLC, Lakin, Kansas, said alfalfa growers are facing pigweed and Palmer amaranth and those weeds are difficult to control. The grower has to look...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a Safety Advisory Notice that strongly encourages all pilots conducting low-level operations to wear a properly fitted and maintained flight helmet to improve their survivability in the event of an accident.  The advisory comes as the ATSB releases the final report from...

Hunger is the greatest threat to the environment.   Why you may be asking? Because hungry people do desperate things. Because until you have enough to eat, everything else is a small problem.   These points are too often an underappreciated component in the sustainable agriculture debate. Today, a major focus of...

Small islands in the Pacific, and elsewhere are challenged by not having crop duster aircraft. Usually there isn’t the year-round work to warrant keeping specialised equipment on an island. On Norfolk Island, this challenge is being met by use of drones, but not to fertilise crops, on Norfolk Island a...

A new chapter is opening for the National Agricultural Aviation Association in 2022, its centennial anniversary. A fourth-generation Wisconsinite, Jim Perrin, has been named the organization’s president for the year. Lauded for his leadership and friendly personality, Perrin has been active in the NAAA since the mid-1990s and has decades...

Coming from a family of pilots, I was again struck by the power of aviation when I read that a single aircraft flown by a pilot can spray thousands of acres in a day. Still, some might say, “so what.” Our farmers and ranchers don’t think “so what” when they’re faced...

Kicks off Fifth Annual National Pesticide Safety Education Month with new Spanish-language Pesticide Safety Videos for Farmworkers Pesticide Update - EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention - Feb. 1, 2022 In February, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrates National Pesticide Safety Education Month to raise awareness for...

“This airplane just goes.” That’s the sentiment expressed by long-time Thrush pilot and 510 BEAST operator Tracy Stokes. Although the weather wasn’t cooperating for AgAir Update’s planned evaluation flight of Cascade Aircraft Conversions BEAST, a PT6A-140AG conversion nested inside their proven pressure cowl, Tracy was able to demo the aircraft...

NEAL AIRCRAFT - 75 YEARS IN AVIATION In 1945 Roy Neal joined the U. S. Army Air Corps 4th Ferry Group flying 48 missions in the China-Burma-India theatre during April15, 1945 - July 18,1945. Roy had been chasing his dreams of aviation and now he was flying on a daily...

Living Our Everyday Life To Please God “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16). The word “dwell” means to be at home;...