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For Jake and Sandy Hoffner, there’s no place like home — even if it’s a relatively new home. Originally farmers, and raised in rural North Dakota, they left during a time of drought in which their farm was struggling. When the opportunity to buy a crop-dusting business presented itself in...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Agriculture filed administrative rules with the secretary of state this week that significantly limits insecticide chlorpyrifos' uses immediately and phases out nearly all use by Dec. 31, 2023. The nearly 3-year phase-out provides research time into alternative products and evaluates newly Environmental...

ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Maryland Department of Agriculture is reminding farmers and pesticide applicators that regular use of chlorpyrifos products will be prohibited after Dec. 31, 2020. This deadline is in accordance with regulations adopted by the department on June 15, 2020, (COMAR 15.05.01.02). “Earlier this year, I directed MDA to develop and...

WAGONHAMMER AERIAL APPLICATION PROJECT COMPLETE The Wagonhammer Aerial Herbicide Application project concluded on Friday, October 30th after treating 2,060 acres for cheatgrass and spotted knapweed over the course of three days.  Treatments are intended to decrease invasive annual grasses and noxious weeds to improve essential big game winter range and decrease...

M. Lynn ''Chief'' Gibson left on his final flight Sunday morning, November 15, 2020, at the age of 89. Lynn was born August, 1931, on the outskirts of Aubrey, Arkansas. He graduated Aubrey High School in 1950, then joined the Air Force and was stationed at March Air Base in...

Combining expert skill with new technology allows for precision aerial application. As a specialist in aerial application (or “crop dusting,” as lay people call it), Matt Crabbe of Crabbe Aviation in Mechanicsville has spent decades of his life taking in a bird’s eye view of the state’s agriculture. If you’re...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns against the use of drones, fogging, fumigation, and electrostatic spraying to apply disinfectants to help fight COVID-19, unless the product’s label provides specific instruction in how to do so, according to a recent post on the agency’s website. The EPA says that it has not yet evaluated...

HOXIE, Ark. (KAIT) - The Hoxie City Council passed an ordinance instituting a “no-fly zone” for a one-mile radius around the city’s sewer pond Tuesday at Hoxie City Hall. The ordinance comes after the city received notice of potential safety violations from the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment with...

Sometimes, things are just meant to be. Such is the case with Mike Rivenbark, owner and pilot of Moore’s Aerial Applicators in Clinton, North Carolina. Mike wasn’t always an ag-pilot. In fact, he wasn’t born into ag aviation; or aviation in general. Raised in the Southern Outer Banks of North...

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comments on a proposed interim registration review decision for the herbicide paraquat that includes new safety requirements. Read more on this story at AgriPulse