United States

When Lane Aviation Inc. first started offering crop dusting service to Fort Bend County farmers 76 years ago, most of the county was, well, farmland. Not so much today. Urban sprawl has gobbled up much of the land that used to grow cotton, corn, milo, rice and soybeans. Much of...

Practical Farmers of Iowa has released a new cover crop app designed to help farmers easily locate cover crop seed, services and suppliers in time for fall 2021 planting decisions. The app, Find Cover Crops, is free to download and use, and is available in both the Apple App Store...

WASHINGTON – The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center will host its annual “Innovations in Flight Family Day and Aviation Display” on Saturday, Aug. 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature the museum’s newest artifact, Air Tractor AT-301/400A “Dusty Crophopper.” This aircraft was...

A very special entry, “HONORING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST AERIAL APPLICATION MADE BY AN AIRPLANE,” was introduced into the U.S. Congressional Record on Aug. 3, 2021, the official centennial anniversary of the industry. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) introduced the entry. Congressman Graves, a longtime pilot with multiple...

BROOKINGS – In June, Jordan Williams, of Brookings, got an interesting request. The operator he was working for just bid on a government contract in eastern Montana and asked Williams if he would help out, possibly for as long as a month. Williams, who works for Wilde Aire Services, a...

  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...

A Coahoma County ag pilot who lost his life in an airplane accident July 25, saw local pilots host a flyover at his funeral on Saturday morning. Cord Foster was killed when his plane failed to clear a berm on take off in Scott Sunday a week ago. Foster was...

Kris Petersen grew up at the airport. His parents, Scott and Sarah Petersen, started Pontiac Flying Service in 1997, and their young son was often in tow at the Livingston County facility. “I was at the airport every day, riding my bike, playing with airplane toys, and I started helping...

EPA Finalizes Paraquat Registration, OKs Aerial Applications for Now KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- EPA finalized its interim registration decision for paraquat on Aug. 1, reversing its proposal last year to ban most aerial applications. Instead, the agency will permit aerial applications of the Group 22 herbicide in crops, with...

Air Tractor® “Dusty Crophopper” takes its place beside aviation legends. On Aug. 3, the National Agricultural Aviation Association will present to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum the full-sized, fully flight-capable replica of Dusty Crophopper, star of Disney's popular 3D computer-animated comedy films, Planes, and Planes: Fire and...